Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the duodenum.
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- noun
Inflammation of theduodenum .
Etymologies
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duodenum + -itis
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Examples
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While we have quite a number of examples of men living on nothing but water forty or fifty days, I have never seen or learned of a well-authenticated case of a man's taking or receiving into his system nothing but alcohol for half of that length of time, without becoming sick with either gastro-duodenitis, nephritis, or delirium tremens. "
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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