单词 | periarteritis nodosa |
释义 | periarteritis nodosan. Medicine. A type of polyarteritis affecting mainly medium-sized arteries, with the formation of nodules of inflammation in the vessel walls, often resulting in ischaemic damage to organs supplied by affected vessels (such as the heart, kidneys, bowel, and brain) and in aneurysm formation. Also (now more commonly) called polyarteritis nodosa. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [noun] > inflammation white leg1801 arteritis1820 phlebitis1826 aortitis1842 angiitis1844 mesoarteritis1857 periarteritis1857 periphlebitis1857 pylephlebitis1857 thrombophlebitis1873 thromboarteritis1887 periarteritis nodosa1892 vasculitis1900 polyarteritis1907 thromboangiitis obliterans1908 Buerger's disease1914 Takayasu's disease1952 1892 F. P. Foster Illustr. Encycl. Med. Dict. IV. 2547/1 P[eriarteriitis] nodosa, a thickening of the intima and infiltration of the adventitia of an artery, producing a nodular prominence. 1933 Practitioners Libr. Med. & Surg. III. cxii. 1136 Periarteritis nodosa is a rare disease affecting medium-sized arteries in any portion of the body, most commonly in males between the ages of twenty and forty. 1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. viii. 136 The interaction of antigen and antibody may produce lesions in the heart, liver and kidneys resembling those of periarteritis nodosa. 2001 Jrnl. Nephrol. 14 428 Cutaneous periarteritis nodosa is a clinical feature characterized by chronic, benign course. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1892 |
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