| 单词 | polyarteritis nodosa |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolyarteritis nodosa Originally (in full polyarteritis acuta nodosa, polyarteritis nodosa): a systemic vasculitis characterized by focal inflammation and necrosis of the walls of medium-sized arteries, sometimes with aneurysm formation, often causing infarctions in organs supplied by affected vessels. Later also: any of several other forms of systemic vasculitis involving arteries or arterioles (and sometimes capillaries or venules); esp. in microscopic polyarteritis. Cf. periarteritis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [noun] > inflammation white leg1801 arteritis1820 phlebitis1826 aortitis1842 angiitis1844 mesoarteritis1857 periarteritis1857 periphlebitis1857 pylephlebitis1857 thrombophlebitis1873 thromboarteritis1887 periarteritis nodosa1892 vasculitis1900 polyarteritis1907 thromboangiitis obliterans1908 Buerger's disease1914 Takayasu's disease1952 1907 Jrnl. Pathol. & Bacteriol. 12 54 Polyarteritis acuta nodosa.—Characterised by the formation upon the smaller and medium-sized arteries of small localised nodules. 1951 E. N. Chamberlain Text-bk. Med. vi. 448 Sometimes known as polyarteritis nodosa, this is a rare disease generally affecting persons before mid-life. 1963 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 35 386/2 The pathologists believe that they are able to distinguish Wegener's granulomatosis from other polyarteritides. 1985 Q. Jrnl. Med. 56 467 A distinction between microscopic polyarteritis and polyarteritis nodosa is justified since the complications which arise differ in these two conditions, as may the prognosis. 2001 J. Le Fanu They don't know what's Wrong xvi. 240 After three or four weeks in an isolation ward the cause of my illness was recognized as being polyarteritis nodosa. 2003 Seminars Diagnostic Pathol. 18 3 Microscopic polyangiitis (‘microscopic polyarteritis’) is a form of necrotizing small vessel vasculitis that most often affects venules, capillaries, arterioles, and small arteries, although it occasionally involves medium-sized arteries. < as lemmas |
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