hepatitis

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  1. noun Inflammation of the liver, caused by infectious or toxic agents and characterized by jaundice, fever, liver enlargement, and abdominal pain.

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  • When you think about tattoo parlors, it conjures up images of sailors, gang members, hepatitis, and spring break.
  • ATLANTA, Jan. 5 -- Outbreaks of viral hepatitis are a growing problem in non-hospital health care facilities, such as nursing homes and hemodialysis clinics, the CDC has warned. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
  • Alcoholic hepatitis is a liver problem that causes serious damage to the liver but can be healed. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Samples of human or equine antibodies can be contaminated with potentially fatal pathogens such as hepatitis, —  SciDev.Net
  • Achillion is focused on solutions for the most challenging problems in infectious disease -- hepatitis, resistant bacterial infections and HIV. —  News
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἥπαρ (ἡπατ-), liver, + -itis. Cf. hepatite.
 

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/hɛpəˈtaɪtɪs/
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