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Treatment of cholecystitis often involves the removal of the gallbladder.
—Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 1 July 2024
What is acute cholecystitis?
—Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 13 Dec. 2021
Scott might have painful gallstones or, at worst, cholecystitis: inflammation of the gallbladder that can be excruciatingly painful, comes in waves and causes some people to pass out.
—Christopher Tedeschi, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2017
The 87-year-old justice underwent non-surgical treatment for what the court described as acute cholecystitis, a benign gall bladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
—Mark Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2020
According to prison records, the cause of death was cardiac arrest combined with acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder infection that is often the product of trauma.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
If cholecystitis occurs, which is inflammation of the gallbladder, the symptoms include fever and increased pain that won’t go away.
—Felissa Allard, SELF, 8 July 2019
If the gallstones cause infection in the gallbladder (cholecystitis) or block the flow of bile from the liver to the intestines through the bile duct,fever and chills can be present.
—Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2017
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Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from cholecystis
First Known Use
1866, in the meaning defined above
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“Cholecystitis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cholecystitis. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Medical Definition
cholecystitis
noun
cho·le·cys·ti·tis
-(ˌ)sis-ˈtīt-əs
plural cholecystitides
-ˈtit-ə-ˌdēz
: inflammation of the gallbladder
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