arteritisn.
/ˌɑːtəˈrʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˌɑrdəˈraɪdᵻs/ Medicine.
Inflammation of an artery or arteries; an instance of this. Frequently with distinguishing word denoting a specific type or location of inflammation.
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white leg1801
arteritis1820
phlebitis1826
aortitis1842
angiitis1844
mesoarteritis1857
periarteritis1857
periphlebitis1857
pylephlebitis1857
thrombophlebitis1873
thromboarteritis1887
periarteritis nodosa1892
vasculitis1900
polyarteritis1907
thromboangiitis obliterans1908
Buerger's disease1914
Takayasu's disease1952
1820 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Med. Sci. 1 505 In July 1819, M. Dolbant [read Dalbant] presented to the faculty of Medicine of Paris a thesis on arteritis, in which are detailed five instances of inflammation, more or less extensive, of the internal tunics of arteries.
1829 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 15 226 A modern Morbid Anatomist considers the disease to consist in an inflammation of the arteries, and has named it accordingly ‘Arteritis’.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 226/2 An example of acute arteritis.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. i. 37 The gradual closure of a vessel from local arteritis.
1984 Times 25 May 9/2 He instigated immediate steroid therapy for patients with giant cell arteritis, a disease affecting arteries leading to the eye and brain.
1993 Equus July 119/2 Equine viral arteritis—respiratory and venereal disease that can cause abortion.
2005 Jrnl. Vascular Surg. 41 893 Most arterial aneurysms in children are secondary to infections, trauma, arteritides..and other causes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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