Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inflammation of the cæcum, appendix, and connective tissue behind the cæcum.
  • noun Inflammation of the peritoneum covering the cæcum and appendix.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.

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  • noun medicine inflammation of the connective tissue around the caecum

Etymologies

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peri- +‎ typhlitis

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Examples

  • In 1876 I broke down with a serious illness, which was diagnosed as perityphlitis, but which I now know was appendicitis.

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

  • The subject of typhlitis and perityphlitis was investigated among others by Puchelt (1829), Burne, Smith, Bamberger, and Oppolzer, diseases of the kidneys by Richard Bright (1827),

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The patient was a girl of eighteen, who had previously had perityphlitis, followed by abscesses about the navel and lumbar region.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The patient was a girl of eighteen, who had previously had perityphlitis, followed by abscesses about the navel and lumbar region.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The old text-book description of typhlitis and perityphlitis is so similar to the description of the present day appendicitis that it is not necessary to reproduce it.

    Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

  • Thirty-four years ago I was called in consultation to see my first case of what was then generally recognized as perityphlitis or typhlitis -- inflammation of the connective tissue about the cecum.

    Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

  • Typhlitis and perityphlitis were the names used to designate the disease now covered by the word appendicitis.

    Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

  • Frederick Treves who found symptoms of perityphlitis.

    The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V 1893

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