metritis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of metritis
From New Latin, dating back to 1835–45; see origin at metr-, -itis
Example Sentences
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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 Reeks, Harry Caulton
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
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The first case is that of a woman with chronic metritis and prolapsus uteri.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
I wrote simply: metritis chronica; intumescentia labiorum orificii et colli uteri.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
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