Definition of typhlitis in English:
typhlitis
noun tɪˈflʌɪtɪstɪˈflaɪdəs
mass nounMedicine Inflammation of the caecum.
Example sentencesExamples
- Treatment of typhlitis with G-CSF has already been reported, and formal clinical trials are warranted.
- Outpatient monitoring and treatment of patients with typhlitis is not feasible because they require bowel rest and IV administration of fluids and antibiotics.
- The reported incidence of typhlitis has depended on whether clinical signs or autopsy findings were used as criteria for diagnosis.
- Whereas diarrhea and fever are common toxicities associated with high-dose chemotherapy, it is likely that many cases of typhlitis go unrecognized.
- Fitz compared symptoms of 157 patients who died of ‘typhlitis’ with their autopsy findings, and in 1886, he coined the term appendicitis and urged the appendix's early removal, which was contrary to the habit of delaying surgery.
Derivatives
adjectivetɪˈflɪtɪk
Medicine The ameboma is referred to as ‘pseudotumor,’ pseudocancer, Kartuli's amebic tumor, typhlitic or nonspecific granulomatous tumor, ligneous tumor, pseudotuberculoma or neoplastiform amebiasis.
Example sentencesExamples
- Especially is this true when it is a positive fact that all typhlitic and appendicular abscesses will open into the bowels if allowed to do so.
- Would the celebrated surgeons of half a century ago, who surely considered the opening of a typhlitic abscess as an heroic act, have admitted the possibility that a day will come when the normal parietal and visceral peritoneum could be exposed and manipulated with absolute impunity?
- These would be mutually regulated and thus react beneficially on the typhlitic tendency.
Origin
Mid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek tuphlon 'caecum or blind gut' (from tuphlos 'blind') + -itis.