See Also: platyglossal(medicine)

hepatitis (iou) and platyglossal (medicine)


hepatitis (iou)



hepatitis noun. E18.
[mod. Latin, from Greek hepar, hepat- liver + -ITIS.]
Medicine. Inflammation of the liver; any of several diseases in which this occurs.
hepatitis A infectious hepatitis. hepatitis B serum hepatitis. hepatitis C a viral form of hepatitis transmitted in infected blood, causing chronic liver disease. infectious hepatitis a viral form of hepatitis transmitted in Food, causing fever and jaundice. SERUM hepatitis.

platyglossal (medicine)


platyglossal


Having a broad, flattened tongue.

Origin: platy-+ G. Glossa, tongue