CERVICITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cervicitis mean? 

• CERVICITIS (noun)
  The noun CERVICITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the uterine cervix

  Familiarity information: CERVICITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERVICITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the uterine cervix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cervicitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include endometriosis and cervicitis.

(Cervical Non-Neoplastic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include cervicitis, endocervical polyp, and carcinoma.

(Cervical Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)