Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of an ovary.
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- noun medicine Inflammation of the
ovaries .
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- noun inflammation of one or both ovaries
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Examples
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Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a general term for an infection that affects the lining of the uterus (endometrium), the fallopian tubes (salpingitis), and/or ovaries (oophoritis).
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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However, complications have included 27 reports of orchitis, 11 meningitis, four encephalitis, four deafness, and one each of oophoritis, mastitis, pancreatitis, and unspecified complications.
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Sixty-five reports of complications from mumps have been received: orchitis (55 cases), pancreatitis (five cases), aseptic meningitis (two cases), transient deafness (one case), Bell's palsy (one case), and oophoritis (one case).
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(Which can lead to convulsions, and can leave the child deaf or mentally retarded.) "Complications from mumps infection can include meningitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord), orchitis (swelling of the testicles), oophoritis
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Gabriel... 2010
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