Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Inflammation of the rectum or anus.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Inflammation of the rectum or anus.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology An inflammation of the anus and the lining of the rectum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Inflammation of the rectum.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
Etymologies
- Greek prōktos, anus + -itis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Abnormal irritability of the bowels is necessarily involved in the inflammatory process known as proctitis and colitis.”
“I've had my share of issues - diagnosed as ulcerative proctitis about 7 years ago.”
“Manoel da Silva et al., used it at the Assistencial-Brasilia-DF-Brazil teaching hospital to cure proctitis actinic.”
“I have used my blue pencil sparingly, and as a consequence the consecutive reader will find that constipation, diarrhea, biliousness, indigestion, auto-infection and proctitis are treated in nearly all the chapters -- but with varying applications.”
“Inflammation interferes with nutrition of the anal and rectal tissues, rendering them friable or weak and easily broken; whence the bleeding and painful fissure or the anal ulcer, which so often are the outcome of proctitis and an accompaniment of piles.”
“Pile formations are a symptom of chronic proctitis of fifteen, twenty or more years duration.”
“Should the proctitis be cured and these channels remain, there may be sufficient inflammatory product in the channels to ooze through the skin to the outer surface, and excite itching; or if a portion of the channel escapes treatment, the same symptom may be expected at any time.”
“One of the many symptoms of proctitis is the existence of anal channels from which an inflammatory product exudes through the skin, causing painful itching of the skin around the anal margin and not infrequently around the buttocks to the distance of three, six or even more inches from the anal orifice.”
“As already stated, piles are one of the symptoms of proctitis, and all cases of piles involve more or less irritability and contraction of the anal canal and the terminal portion of the rectum through which the fecal matter is forced.”
“The diaper is in truth chiefly responsible for proctitis, and proctitis is in turn chiefly responsible for chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, auto-infection; and hence for mal-assimilation, mal-nutrition, anemia; and for a thousand and one reflex functional derangements of the system as well.”
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