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appendicitis

/uh-pen-duh-sahy-tis/US // əˌpɛn dəˈsaɪ tɪs //UK // (əˌpɛndɪˈsaɪtɪs) //

阑尾炎,盲肠炎,盲肠病,盲肠症

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Examples

  • At the emergency room at Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, New York, near where he was temporarily living with his mother during the pandemic, he was diagnosed with appendicitis and had a routine appendectomy.

  • On the same afternoon Lady Victoria developed appendicitis and went to bed for two months.

  • When a man suffers from such a disease as appendicitis, he does not talk about the "wickedness" of the vermiform appendix.

  • There's nothing that I'd like better, captain, but I've got an old man ill of pneumonia, and there's a girl with appendicitis.

  • Near as I can make out, it was what they call appendicitis nowadays, and had come on him in the night.

  • I entered the hospital acutely ill and the doctors decided to operate for appendicitis.