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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of the gallbladder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the gall-bladder.
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- noun medicine An
inflammation of thegallbladder .
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- noun inflammation of the gall bladder
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Examples
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A complication such as cholecystitis is quite common.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Belly pain that gets better in two hours was something like indigestion; belly pain that starts causing vomiting in two hours may be pancreatitis, appendicitis or cholecystitis -- to name just a few members of the 'itis' clan.
David Katz, M.D.: How True To Life Are Medical Dramas? M.D. David Katz 2011
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Medicare records don't reveal many clinical details, such as how long patients waited to present their acute cholecystitis to the hospital or the specific reasons a doctor gave for delaying surgery.
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Researchers analyzed Medicare data for nearly 30,000 patients hospitalized with one of the most common complications, gallbladder inflammation known as acute cholecystitis.
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Medical examination carried out at the end of June - beginning of July 2009 revealed gallbladder stones and pancreatitis and calculous cholecystitis were diagnosed.
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The classic symptom of an inflamed gallbladder (cholecystitis) is sharp right upper quadrant pain that may radiate to the right shoulder or right back.
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It turns out that Mrs. Oldilocks has cholecystitis nlm, which means that her gall bladder is inflamed and might need to come out.
grey’s anatomy recap : fate is a cruel mistress (season 2, episode 8) | Seattle Metblogs 2005
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Dietary and other habits that promote the formation of gallstones are therefore likely causes of cholecystitis also.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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TREATMENT: Conventional physicians have found surgical removal of the gallbladder the “easiest” solution for both cholecystitis and gallstones; the body seems to get along just as well without this organ.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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This postulate gives us the key to the pain-muscular phenomena of peritonitis, pleurisy, cystitis, cholecystitis, etc., as well as to the pain-muscular phenomena in obstructions of the hollow viscera.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
chained_bear commented on the word cholecystitis
"I probed for the gallbladder, just in case, wondering as I did just what I would do, should it prove to be an acute attack of cholecystitis or an inflamed appendix. I could envision the cavity of the belly in my mind, as though it lay open in fact before me, my fingers translating the soft, lump shapes beneath the skin..."
—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (NY: Dell, 1994), 672
January 17, 2010