Definition of Metritis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium).

Exact synonyms: Endometritis
Generic synonyms: Inflammation, Redness, Rubor

Definition of Metritis

1. n. Inflammation of the womb.

Definition of Metritis

1. Noun. (medicine) inflammation of the womb ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metritis

1. inflammation of the uterus [n -TISES]

Medical Definition of Metritis

1. Inflammation of the womb. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Womb + -tis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metritis

metrics
metrification
metrifications
metrified
metrifies
metrifonate
metrify
metrifying
metring
metriocephalic
metriopatheia
metriplectic
metrist
metrists
metritides
metritis (current term)
metritises
metrizable
metrizamide
metrizoate
metrizoate sodium
metrizoic acid
metro
metro-
metro station
metrochrome
metrochromes
metrocyte
metrodin
metrodynamometer

Literary usage of Metritis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"If the term metritis is restricted to inflammation of this tissue, then metritis is a very rare disease. The confusion which prevails with regard to the ..."

2. Diseases of Women by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1922)
"Uterine wall from a case of chronic metritis (.<> contrasted in thick- :li * normal wall (ft), the two being magnified alike. In this case the entire «all ..."

3. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"severe uterine colic, but in many instances has induced a fatal metritis or peritonitis. Hence the operation demands the utmost precaution. ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1869)
"For distinguishing this disease from cervical metritis the following will be ... Between pregnancy and commencing corporeal metritis, which is very apt to ..."

5. The Diseases of Women: A Manual for Physicians and Students by Heinrich Fritsch (1883)
"Such a metritis, therefore, is always the consequence of lasting injuries, ... To be included among chronic forms of metritis are the chronic affections of ..."

6. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"When the womb is tender to the touch, and when we suspect that there is a parenchymatous metritis or other complication, intrauterine injection must not be ..."

7. Diseases of Women by Lawson Tait (1879)
"Traumatic metritis sometimes follows operations, but it so rapidly merges ... In the acute septic metritis of child-bed, this source of infection has been ..."

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