papillitisn.
/ˌpapᵻˈlʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˌpæpəˈlaɪdᵻs/ Medicine.
Inflammation of a papilla or papillae; esp. inflammation of the optic papilla (optic disc).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > other disorders of eye
holks1513
red heat1527
hypopyon1706
photophobia1772
buphthalmos1821
ophthalmoplegia1835
periorbitis1839
ophthalmoplegy1848
pinguecule1858
choked disc1870
optic neuritis1873
cyclitis1879
papillitis1879
Leber's disease1890
ophthalmopathy1897
papilloedema1908
sanpaku1963
1879 W. R. Gowers Man. & Atlas Med. Ophthalmoscopy i. 36 It has been proposed by Leber to restrict the terms ‘optic nerve’ and ‘optic neuritis’ to the whole nerve, employing only the words papilla and papillitis to designate the intra-ocular termination of the nerve and its inflammation... For the..condition the name ‘papillitis’ is very useful.
1891 H. C. Angell Treat. Dis. Eye (rev. ed.) 217 There is decidedly more retinitis than papillitis.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 657 Attended with headache and a slight degree of papillitis.
1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. v. 49 Papillitis is confined to the gingival papillae.
1981 European Jrnl. Radiol. 1 301 Thirty-two cases of tumour in the region of papilla of Vater are reported including five benign lesions (papillitis, polyp, duodenitis) and 27 periampullary carcinomas.
1990 New Scientist 9 June 74/3 After jogger's nipple, pizza-cutter's palsy, photocopier's papillitis and Space Invaders thumb, we can now add another condition to the list of occupational ailments: ice hockey lung.
2004 Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. 150 299 Eruptive lingual papillitis with household transmission (ELP) is an acute stomatitis of unknown cause occurring in children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1879