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POLYARTERITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyarteritis mean? 

POLYARTERITIS (noun)
  The noun POLYARTERITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of several arteriesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYARTERITIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of several arteries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

arteritis (inflammation of an artery)


 Context examples 


In some cases, however, microscopic vessels are also affected (e.g., in the kidneys), a condition that has been called microscopic polyarteritis or polyangiitis; this disorder is felt to be more closely associated with Wegener's granulomatosis than to classic polyarteritis nodosa.

(Microscopic Polyarteritis, NCI Thesaurus)

A painful asymmetric asynchronous sensory and motor peripheral neuropathy involving isolated damage to at least 2 separate nerve areas; associated with (but not limited to) systemic disorders such as diabetes, vasculitis, amyloidosis, direct tumor involvement, polyarteritis nodosa, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and paraneoplastic syndromes.

(Mononeuritis Multiplex, NCI Thesaurus)



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