Medical Definition of Canthitis
1. Inflammation of a canthus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canthitis
Literary usage of Canthitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"canthitis (can-thai'ti's, L. can-thi'tis). [L. can'thus.] Inflammation of one or
both canthi. ..."
2. Student's pocket medical lexicon: Giving the Correct Pronunciation and by Elias Longley (1881)
"... externally used to form blisters; internally a stimulant to the urinary organs.
canthitis, Kan-ti-tis: inflammation of the ..."
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