| 释义 |
itis, n.|ˈaɪtɪs|
[The suffix -itis used as an independent word.]
A bodily condition, affection, or disease that is or may be described or designated by a word ending in -itis.
[1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 120 To regard every condition of generalised or localised fibroid change of the organs of the body as a chronic ‘-itis’ is equally erroneous.] 1909Practitioner Nov. 706 It must be remembered that the complaint referred to [sc. mucous colitis] is not, strictly speaking, an itis at all. |