| 释义 | chronic rhinitis
 chronic rhinitis[′krän·ik rī′nīd·əs]  (medicine) Inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane due to repeated attacks of acute rhinitis; associated with membrane hypertrophy and later atrophy.chronic rhinitis
 chron·ic rhi·ni·tisa protracted sluggish inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane; in the later stages the mucous membrane with its glands may be thickened (hypertrophic rhinitis) or thinned (atrophic rhinitis). |