Definition of Thelitis

1. inflammation of the nipple [n -TISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thelitis

theism
theisms
theist
theistic
theistic evolution
theistical
theistically
theists
thel-
thelarche
thelaziasis
thelazioidea
thele
theleplasty
thelf
thelitis (current term)
thelitises
thelium
thelo-
theloncus
thelorrhagia
thelphusian
thelves
thelytokous
thelytoky
them
them's the breaks
them's the facts
them thar
thema

Literary usage of Thelitis

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

1. A Text-book of Pathology by Alfred Stengel, Herbert Fox (1915)
"thelitis, inflammation of the nipple, is common in nursing women when they are at ... The inflammation of the mamma following thelitis is usually catarrhal, ..."

2. The Breast: Its Anomalies, Its Diseases, and Their Treatment by John Blair Deaver, Joseph McFarland, Leon Herman (1917)
"With the loss of the nipple, the ability to nurse an infant is set aside. III. INFLAMMATION OF THE NIPPLES—thelitis As even mild grades of ..."

3. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1837)
"They declared themselves MONO- thelitis (asserters of the unity of will), but they treated the words as new, the questions as superfluous ; and recommended ..."

4. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1920)
"thelitis, the-li'-tis. Inflammation of the nipples. Thulium, iM-le-um. 1. A papilla. 2. A layer of cells. ..."

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