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aortitis

aortitis

8.4
The main blood vessel from the heart becomes swollen and painful
  • noun
  • /eɪˈɔːrtaɪtɪs/
  • Specialized
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  • He was hospitalized due to aortitis, which caused significant inflammation of the main artery.

Examples

  • The doctors diagnosed her with aortitis after she experienced persistent chest pain.

  • During the examination, the specialist found signs of aortitis that required immediate treatment.

  • Most recently, Charokopos and colleagues depicted a case of cartilaginous and osseous metaplasia with bone marrow formation in the aortic valve of a 40-year-old patient with giant cell aortitis.

    Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

rheumatic aortitis
vsaortitis
  • Specialized
9.9

Swelling of the main artery from the heart after rheumatic fever

is broader and not limited to cases caused by rheumatic fever

Compounds

rheumatic aortitis
  • Specialized
9.9

Swelling of the main artery from the heart after rheumatic fever

Surface Forms

aortitis singular
aortitides plural

Morphology

aortitis = aorta (transparent) = aort + itis

The suffix '-itis' is a standard medical suffix indicating inflammation, making the word transparent to those familiar with medical terminology.

Etymology

Aortitis comes from aorta, the name for the 'main artery' from the heart, and the ending -itis, which means 'inflammation' and appears in common words like tonsillitis and arthritis. So aortitis means inflammation of the aorta.