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paristhmitis

paristhmitis noun: tonsillitis.

Noun

paristhmitis (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) tonsillitis
    • The melancholy issue of this case, which seemed to the general observer merely an intense form of paristhmitis or tonsillar inflammation, led me to reflect on the probable means of obviating so unfavourable a catastrophe in a disease so apparently slight.1834 July, David Craigie, “Observations, Pathological and Therapeutic, on a particular species of Quinsy or Angina”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 27

Origin of paristhmitis

From para- + isthmitis.

Questions about paristhmitis

What does paristhmitis mean?
Paristhmitis means tonsillitis.
What part of speech is paristhmitis?
Paristhmitis is a noun.

Words near paristhmitis in the dictionary

  1. Parissi
  2. Paristan
  3. paristhmia
  4. paristhmic
  5. paristhmion
  6. paristhmitis
  7. parisyllabic
  8. parisyllabical
  9. paritaprevir
  10. parities
  11. pariton

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