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tubulitis

tubulitis noun: inflammation of a tubule.

Noun

tubulitis (uncountable)

  1. inflammation of a tubule
    • Moreover, 2 of 4 patients with secondary diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis showed tubulitis, a feature associated with tubular injury.2014 November 20, Xu Zeng et al., “Urinary β2-Microglobulin Is a Good Indicator of Proximal Tubule Injury: A Correlative Study with Renal Biopsies”, in Journal of biomarkers, volume 2014, →DOI

Origin of tubulitis

From tubule + -itis.

Questions about tubulitis

What does tubulitis mean?
Tubulitis means inflammation of a tubule.
What part of speech is tubulitis?
Tubulitis is a noun.

Words near tubulitis in the dictionary

  1. tubulinopathies
  2. tubulinopathy
  3. tubulins
  4. tubulipore
  5. tubulipores
  6. tubulitis
  7. tubulization
  8. tubulizations
  9. tubullovillous
  10. tubulo-
  11. tubuloacinar

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