stomatitis
- noun
- /stəˈmætɪs/
- Specialized
:
estomatitis
- He was prescribed medication to treat the stomatitis that caused swelling and irritation inside his mouth.
- vesicular stomatitis
Examples
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You can get glossitis and herpetic stomatitis.
Fiction book (1995) -
In many of the patients, their symptoms of fatigue and loss of appetite had been reduced, and disease signs such as diarrhea, stomatitis in the mouth, and enlarged lymph glands were recorded by the clinicians to have been markedly lowered.
Academic text (1993) -
The lips here can also be in the genital area, OK, So you can get stomatitis of the tongue.
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Mouth ulcers and angular stomatitis, often with vitamins E, D, and K deficiency.
Academic text (2014) -
As recently as June of this year, a suspicious livestock disease outbreak in Arizona and New Mexico had federal and private veterinarians scurrying for confirmation that the problem at hand was not the foot-and-mouth virus, but its copycat cousin, vesicular stomatitis.
Academic text (1995) -
The doctor diagnosed her with stomatitis after she complained of severe mouth pain.
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The inflammation from stomatitis often leads to discomfort while eating and drinking.
Synonyms
Painful swelling and open sores in the mouth that make eating hard
Compounds
- Specialized
A viral illness in animals like horses and cows that makes blisters in the mouth and on the skin
Surface Forms
Morphology
stomatitis = stoma (opaque) = stomat + itis
Although built from the combining form meaning 'mouth' + '-itis' (inflammation), the medical combining form is not transparently understood by average learners, making the term opaque.
Etymology
Stomatitis comes from the Greek parts stoma meaning 'mouth' and -itis meaning 'inflammation' or 'swelling and pain'. So, stomatitis literally means inflammation of the mouth, which is why it describes painful sores or ulcers inside the mouth.
