Definition of Periarteritis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the outer coat of an artery.

Generic synonyms: Arteritis

Medical Definition of Periarteritis

1. Inflammation of the adventitia of an artery. Synonym: exarteritis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Periarteritis

periapses
periapsides
periapsis
periapt
periapts
periaqueductal
periaqueductal gray
periarbuscular
periareolar
periarterial
periarterial pad
periarterial plexus
periarterial plexus of maxillary artery
periarterial plexus of vertebral artery
periarterial sympathectomy
periarteritis (current term)
periarteritis nodosa
periarthric
periarthritis
periarticular
periarticular abscess
periastral
periastron
periastrons
periatrial
periauger
periaugers
periauricular
periaxial
periaxillary

Literary usage of Periarteritis

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

1. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"DIFFUSE periarteritis AND MILIA.RY ANEURISMS. SUMMARY.—Arterial lesions which give rise to cerebral hemorrhage. Diffuse periarteritis with miliary aneurisms ..."

2. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"periarteritis is mostly & chronic change, and consists in the production of ... It is IL. a periarteritis that Charcot and Bouchard sit-ribe the lesions ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1895)
"Nodose periarteritis, as the condition has been very happily termed, can hardly be said to have found a place in English textbooks of pathology. ..."

4. Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1909)
"... -periarteritis NODOSA-STENOSIS OF THE AORTA AND PULMONARY ARTERY-CONGENITAL SMALLNESS OF THE ARTERIES I. ACUTE AORTITIS WHEN acute inflammation of the ..."

5. A Manual of Pathological Histology by Victor Cornil (1880)
"In every case of acute endarteritis there exists a considerable thickening of the esternal i'out, a periarteritis, corresponding to the whole extent of the ..."

6. A Text-book of practical medicine: Designed for the Use of Students and by Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1892)
"periarteritis. tion, Narrowing. IV. Degenerations : Fatty, Waxy ... The middle coat is not extensively involved, but a periarteritis nearly always occurs. ..."

7. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"periarteritis Nodosa; Congenital Aneurism. The medium-sized arteries, especially those of the muscles, and the heart, spleen, liver, kidneys, intestines, ..."

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