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Inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs)
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phlebitis
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Phlebitis or venitis is the inflammation of a vein , usually in the legs . It most commonly occurs in superficial veins. Phlebitis often occurs in conjunction with thrombosis and is then called thrombophlebitis or superficial thrombophlebitis. Unlike deep ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, medical Latin, from phlebo- "vein" + -itis "inflammation."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phlebitis \Phle*bi"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a vein + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of a vein.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Inflammation of a vein, usually in the legs.
Usage examples of phlebitis.
An elderly phlebitis, a woman in labor, a little kid who had fallen off a fence and needed six stitches.
There had been no talk of hiatus hernia, stomach trouble, migraine, or phlebitis, for the past two weeks.
It was true she had phlebitis, but the migraine, hiatus hernia and stomach trouble seemed to be born separately or altogether on different bouts of friction.
Maruja suffered the onset of phlebitis that caused severe pains in her legs.
Poor Nixon, with a severe phlebitis that might kill him, and probably would if he had Hooper for his doctor, floundering so bad.
She always carried aspirin for me, because I am prone to flare-ups of phlebitis when I sit too long in class.
He had an infected compound femoral fracture, a birth with potential erythroblastosis fetalis, and an elderly phlebitis, all waiting.