Definition of Pharyngitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the fauces and pharynx.


Definition of Pharyngitis

1. n. Inflammation of the pharynx.

Definition of Pharyngitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the pharynx. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pharyngitis

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Medical Definition of Pharyngitis

1. Inflammation of the pharynx. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pharyngitis

pharyngeal tubercle
pharyngeal vein
pharyngeal veins
pharyngealization
pharyngealize
pharyngealized
pharyngealizes
pharyngealizing
pharyngectomy
pharyngei
pharynges
pharyngeus
pharyngismus
pharyngitic
pharyngitides
pharyngitis (current term)
pharyngitis sicca
pharyngo-
pharyngo-oral
pharyngobasilar fascia
pharyngobranchial
pharyngobranchial ducts
pharyngobranchials
pharyngobranchii
pharyngocele
pharyngoconjunctival fever
pharyngoconjunctival fever virus
pharyngoepiglottic
pharyngoepiglottic fold
pharyngoesophageal

Literary usage of Pharyngitis

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

1. The Diseases of infancy and childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1917)
"Secondary pharyngitis will be considered in connection with these different diseases. Certain children have a constitutional predisposition to attacks of ..."

2. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1885)
"ACUTE pharyngitis. . sphere give rise at times to so-called epidemic pharyngitis. Paludal or malarial pharyngitis may arise from the same causes as malarial ..."

3. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1898)
"pharyngitis. ACUTE pharyngitis. (pharyngitis Acuta Simplex.) Pathology.—The mucous membrane is congested diffusely or in patches, and there may be an ..."

4. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"A severe form of infectious pharyngitis is occasionally seen in week-old puppies ... pharyngitis is secondary to infectious diseases as rabies, distemper, ..."

5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"As pharyngitis are designated all inflammations, which arc partly catarrhal, partly deeper ... pharyngitis is observed most frequently in horses and hogs, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1869)
"pharyngitis may interfere materially with nutrition in consequence of the dyspha- gia, but in most case*of primary pharyngitis this symptom does not ..."

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