Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation in the connective tissue about the rectum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.
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- noun medicine
Inflammation of thetissues around therectum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, as this is precisely the pathological or diseased condition which chronic cases of proctitis and periproctitis present, you will readily understand how spasmodic and partial stricture or contraction occurs in the sore muscles (circular and longitudinal) of the anus and rectum.
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Proctitis (inflammation of the anus or rectum) and periproctitis (inflammation of the connective tissue about the rectum) are by no means uncommon inflammatory processes.
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On the outside of the rectal wall, at the terminal portion, there is also much loose, fatty (areolar) tissue filling the ischio-rectal fossa, which is very prone to suppuration, and inflammation here is called periproctitis.
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For fifteen or more years we may have had warning "touches of the piles," sometimes accompanied with indigestion, constipation, diarrhea and insidious auto-infection and occasionally with local symptoms in and around the anal canal and its external orifice; these to an intelligent tenant should have been evidence of proctitis, or worse, of periproctitis -- inflammation of the connective tissue of the rectal tube.
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