Definitions

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

  • noun Inflammation of the uterus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, inflammation of the uterus, especially of its middle coat.

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

  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the womb.

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

  • noun medicine inflammation of the womb

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

  • noun inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium)

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Examples

  • Your mare retained her afterbirth when she foaled and she developed metritis.

    Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

  • It is the laminitis known to veterinary surgeons as 'metastatic,' and perhaps the two most notable examples of it are the laminitis following a prolonged attack of pneumonia, and the 'Parturient Laminitis' occurring as a concomitant of septic metritis.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • When, therefore, during an attack of septic metritis a condition of laminitis supervenes, we are justified in attributing it to the escape of septic matter from the already infected uterus.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Neither can it be advocated in the laminitis occurring as a sequel to septic metritis or to pneumonia.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • -- Longhi 13.120 describes the case of a woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a month.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • -- Longhi describes the case of a woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a month.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • This practice should be strongly condemned on account of its dangerous consequences -- metritis, peritonitis and often death.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • More than this, in a not limited experience among these people, I have met with but two or three cases of uterine disease, and am prepared to assert that metritis, oöphoritis, and kindred maladies, are exceptionally rare. ''

    Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884

  • This infection often leads to disease of the upper female genital tract, which can be called pelvic inflammatory disease or metritis

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles I. Martin Sheldon et al. 2010

  • (PID; metritis) or endometritis affects ~40% of cattle after parturition.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles I. Martin Sheldon et al. 2010

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