Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, inflammation of cartilage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An inflammation of cartilage.
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- noun medicine
inflammation of thecartilage
Etymologies
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chondro- + -itis
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Examples
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Perichondritis and chondritis of the laryngeal cartilages often follow typhoid ulceration of the larynx, chronic stenosis resulting.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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