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pancreatitis

pancreatitis noun: inflammation of the pancreas.

Noun

pancreatitis (plural pancreatitises or pancreatitides)

  1. Inflammation of the pancreas.
    • Chronic pancreatitis is a condition in which the pancreas is inflamed or swells for an extended period.2024 October 9, Maxine Lipner, “What Does It Mean When Your Poop Floats?”, in Health

pancreatitis meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

pancreatitis in Tamil

கணைய அழற்சி

pancreatitis in Tagalog

inflammation of the pancreas
maganlapay

Forms of pancreatitis

pluralpancreatitises
pluralpancreatitides

Origin of pancreatitis

From pancreas + -itis.

Words formed from pancreatitis

Questions about pancreatitis

What does pancreatitis mean?
Pancreatitis means inflammation of the pancreas.
What is pancreatitis in Tamil?
Pancreatitis in Tamil is கணைய அழற்சி. See Pancreatitis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pancreatitis?
Pancreatitis is a noun.
What is the plural of pancreatitis?
The plural of pancreatitis is pancreatitises.

Words near pancreatitis in the dictionary

  1. pancreaticosplenic
  2. pancreatin
  3. pancreatins
  4. pancreatitic
  5. pancreatitides
  6. pancreatitis
  7. pancreatitises
  8. pancreato-
  9. pancreatobilary
  10. pancreatobiliary
  11. pancreatocholangitis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pancreatitis (page history and authors); pancreatitis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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