metritis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]metritis (countable and uncountable, plural metritides)
- (medicine) Inflammation of the uterus.
- 1888, Georges Apostoli, On a New Treatment of Chronic Metritis:
- The conjunctive tissue, young and succulent, then becomes hard and fibrous, and the uterus, on section, is pale, indurated and devoid of blood; that is chronic metritis which has reached the second period, or period of induration.
- 2008, Thomas J. Divers, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 411:
- The use of systemic antibiotics is justified and often required for metritis that causes systemic illness.
Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms prefixed with metr-
- English terms suffixed with -itis
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Medicine
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:Gynaecology