Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of the rectum or anus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the rectum or anus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the rectum.
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- noun pathology An
inflammation of theanus and the lining of therectum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Abnormal irritability of the bowels is necessarily involved in the inflammatory process known as proctitis and colitis.
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I've had my share of issues - diagnosed as ulcerative proctitis about 7 years ago.
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Manoel da Silva et al., used it at the Assistencial-Brasilia-DF-Brazil teaching hospital to cure proctitis actinic.
Chapter 12 1991
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As already stated, piles are one of the symptoms of proctitis, and all cases of piles involve more or less irritability and contraction of the anal canal and the terminal portion of the rectum through which the fecal matter is forced.
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One of the many symptoms of proctitis is the existence of anal channels from which an inflammatory product exudes through the skin, causing painful itching of the skin around the anal margin and not infrequently around the buttocks to the distance of three, six or even more inches from the anal orifice.
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I have used my blue pencil sparingly, and as a consequence the consecutive reader will find that constipation, diarrhea, biliousness, indigestion, auto-infection and proctitis are treated in nearly all the chapters -- but with varying applications.
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Inflammation interferes with nutrition of the anal and rectal tissues, rendering them friable or weak and easily broken; whence the bleeding and painful fissure or the anal ulcer, which so often are the outcome of proctitis and an accompaniment of piles.
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The diaper is in truth chiefly responsible for proctitis, and proctitis is in turn chiefly responsible for chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, auto-infection; and hence for mal-assimilation, mal-nutrition, anemia; and for a thousand and one reflex functional derangements of the system as well.
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Pile formations are a symptom of chronic proctitis of fifteen, twenty or more years duration.
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Should the proctitis be cured and these channels remain, there may be sufficient inflammatory product in the channels to ooze through the skin to the outer surface, and excite itching; or if a portion of the channel escapes treatment, the same symptom may be expected at any time.
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