Definition of arteritis in English:
arteritis
noun ˌɑːtəˈrʌɪtɪsˌärdəˈrīdəs
mass nounMedicine Inflammation of the walls of an artery.
Example sentencesExamples
- Giant cell arteritis, or temporal arteritis, is an inflammatory disorder of large and medium-sized arteries affected with granulomatous lesions containing T cells and macrophages.
- Takayasu's arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the aorta and its branches.
- Temporal arteritis is inflammation of medium and large sized arteries especially the carotid in the neck and its branches.
- Polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis are closely related inflammatory conditions that affect different cellular targets in genetically predisposed persons.
- Coronary arteritis and myocarditis are the principal causes of morbidity and mortality.