Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inflammation of the duodenum.

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  • noun Inflammation of the duodenum.

Etymologies

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duodenum +‎ -itis

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Examples

  • While we have quite a number of examples of men living on nothing but water forty or fifty days, I have never seen or learned of a well-authenticated case of a man's taking or receiving into his system nothing but alcohol for half of that length of time, without becoming sick with either gastro-duodenitis, nephritis, or delirium tremens. "

    Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890

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