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thymitis, n. Path.|θaɪˈmaɪtɪs|
[f. thymus n. + -itis.]
Inflammation of the thymus.
1848Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 7), Thymitis,..inflammation of the thymus gland. 1922A. Crotti in L. F. Barker et al. Endocrinol. & Metabolism II. iii. 383 Acute thymitis, secondary to metastatic infections following some other acute focal process, has been observed more than once. 1955P. A. Herbut Pathology xxviii. 754 Syphilitic thymitis usually consists of a diffuse fibrosis of the organ. 1975Nature 6 Nov. 12/1 It was the presence of germinal centres in MG [sc. myasthenia gravis] thymuses that initially led Goldstein to propose that the primary lesion in MG was an autoimmune ‘thymitis’. |