Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Inflammation of the urinary bladder.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, inflammation of the bladder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the bladder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology Inflammation of the urinary bladder.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters

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Examples

  • IC has symptoms similar to those of the common urinary tract infection known as cystitis.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • These are also called cystitis or inflammation of the bladder.

    EzineArticles 2010

  • C. Lowell Parsons, M.D., a director of Urigen, is a leader in medical research into the causes and treatment of interstitial cystitis, which is a painful bladder syndrome with typical cystoscopic and/or histological features in the absence of infection or other pathology, and has published over 200 scientific articles and book chapters in this area describing his work.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • If the brunt of the infection is situated in the bladder, the symptoms tend to be of a local nature and the disease is called cystitis, or a lower urinary tract infection.

    unknown title 2009

  • A bacterial infection of the bladder (also called cystitis), the ureters, or the urethra.

    unknown title 2009

  • A bacterial infection of the bladder (also called cystitis), the ureters, or the urethra.

    unknown title 2009

  • If the brunt of the infection is situated in the bladder, the symptoms tend to be of a local nature and the disease is called cystitis, or a lower urinary tract infection.

    unknown title 2009

  • She and her colleague believe that translation software has been used and that somehow the person responsible sought the Welsh for 'cystitis' instead of 'cyclist'.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • She and her colleague believe that translation software has been used and that somehow the person responsible sought the Welsh for 'cystitis' instead of 'cyclist'.

    Lost in Translation 2006

  • Additionally, there are some common disease conditions such as cystitis and early kidney disease for which maximising fluid intake is an important part of treatment.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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