perityphlitisn.

1840 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 9 456 Dr. Albers has described another class of cases, in which an abscess forms in the right iliac fossa, from idiopathic inflammation of the cellular tissue in which the cæcum is embedded (perityphlitis).

1852 J. Miller Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) 333 Induced, on the right side, by irritation forming the perityphlitis of Burns and others.

1895 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IX. (Suppl.) 147/2 The term appendicitis has replaced the various other terms applied to inflammations in that region–typhlitis, perityphlitis, paratyphlitis.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 7/3 It is only in recent years that the word ‘appendicitis’ has been coined. Formerly all inflammatory affections of this part of the bowel were called perityphlitis.

1942 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 58 61/2 I also find its application very useful in those patients who have adhesions around the cecum and the ascending colon, due either to a chronic appendicitis or to some congenital defect by which stasis of the cecum and ascending colon has resulted in perityphlitis and pericecal and pericolonic adhesive formations.

1961 Arch. Surg. 82 735/2 Gradually the terms ‘typhlitis’ and ‘perityphlitis’ have become almost obsolete except to describe certain specific inflammatory reactions in this area, including those caused by tuberculosis, actinomycosis, and amebiasis.

1995 Observer (Nexis) 7 May (Life section) 67 In Victorian times doctors became fond of the diagnosis of ‘typhlitis’ or ‘perityphlitis’, obsolete terms meaning inflammation near the junction of the large and small bowel, although the importance of the appendix in this region was rarely suspected.