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metritis

American  
[mi-trahy-tis] / mɪˈtraɪ tɪs /

noun

Pathology.
  1. inflammation of the uterus.


metritis British  
/ mɪˈtraɪtɪs /

noun

  1. inflammation of the uterus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of metritis

From New Latin, dating back to 1835–45; see origin at metr-, -itis

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Examination showed: metritis following upon sub-involution of the uterus, anteversion with prolapsus of the whole organ.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

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

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Franck records three instances of rapidly fatal metritis in cows, all of which had been poisoned from an adjacent cow with retained and putrid afterbirth.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

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

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

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