GLOSSITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glossitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the tongue

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOSSITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the tongue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("glossitis" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glossitis"):

acute glossitis (glossitis resulting from injury or infection and characterized by swelling and pain)

chronic glossitis (glossitis with atrophy of tongue tissue; sometimes accompanies pernicious anemia)

glossodynia exfoliativa; Moeller's glossitis (a superficial form of glossitis marked by irregular red patches on the tongue and sensitivity to hot or spicy food)

 Context examples 

It may be associated with necrolytic erythema migrans, diarrhea, diabetes, glossitis, weight loss, malabsorption, and anemia.

(Malignant Pancreatic Glucagonoma, NCI Thesaurus)