appendicitis

English

Etymology

From appendic- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛnd.ɪ.saɪt.əs/
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Noun

appendicitis (countable and uncountable, plural appendicitises or appendicitides or appendicites)

(pathology) An inflammation of the vermiform appendix.
- 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
  It was appendicitis of that insidious and misleading type to which children are particularly liable.

Derived terms

Translations

inflammation of the vermiform appendix

Arabic: الْتِهابُ الزَّائِدَةِ الدُّودِيَّة m (al-tihābu z-zāʔidati d-dūdiyya)
Armenian: ապենդիցիտ (hy) (apendicʻit), կուրաղետապ (kuraġetap) (Western Armenian)
Azerbaijani: appendisit (az)
Belarusian: апендыцы́т m (apjendycýt), апэндыцы́т m (apendycýt)
Bulgarian: апендици́т m (apendicít)
Catalan: apendicitis f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 闌尾炎 / 阑尾炎 (zh) (lánwěiyán), 盲腸炎 / 盲肠炎 (zh) (mángchángyán)
Czech: zánět slepého střeva m, apendicitida f
Danish: blindtarmsbetændelse (da) c
Dutch: blindedarmontsteking (nl) f, appendicitis (nl) f
Esperanto: apendicito
Estonian: apenditsiit
Faroese: blindgarnarbruni m, ágarnarbruni m
Finnish: umpilisäketulehdus (fi), appendisiitti
French: appendicite (fr) f
Galician: apendicite (gl) f
Georgian: აპენდიციტი (aṗendiciṭi)
German: Blinddarmentzündung (de) f, (scientific) Appendizitis (de)
Greek: σκωληκοειδίτιδα (el) f (skolikoeidítida)
Hebrew: דלקת התוספתן f (daléket hatoseftán)
Hungarian: (in common parlance) vakbélgyulladás (hu), (technically) féregnyúlvány-gyulladás (hu)
Icelandic: botnlangabólga (is) f
Indonesian: apendisitis (id)
Interlingua: appendicitis
Italian: appendicite (it) f
Japanese: 虫垂炎 (ja) (ちゅうすいえん, chūsuien), 盲腸炎 (もうちょうえん, mōchōen)
Kazakh: соқырішек (soqırišek)
Khmer: បរិសិដ្ឋរោគ (paʼresətthaʼrook)
Korean: 충수염(蟲垂炎) (chungsuyeom), 맹장염(盲腸炎) (maengjang'yeom)
Latin: appendicitis
Latvian: apendicīts m
Lithuanian: apendicitas m
Macedonian: воспаление на слепо црево n (vospalenie na slepo crevo)
Malay: radang apendiks vermiformis, apendisitis
Norwegian:
Bokmål: appendisitt m, blindtarmsbetennelse m

Nynorsk: appendisitt m, blindtarmsbetennelse m, blindtarmbetennelse m
Persian: آپاندیسیت (fa) (âpândisit)
Polish: zapalenie wyrostka n, zapalenie wyrostka robaczkowego (pl) n
Portuguese: apendicite (pt) f
Romanian: apendicită (ro) f
Russian: аппендици́т (ru) m (appendicít)
Slovak: zápal slepého čreva m, apendicitída (sk) f
Spanish: apendicitis (es) f
Swedish: blindtarmsinflammation (sv) c, appendicit (sv) c
Tagalog: apendisitis
Tamil: குடல்வாலழற்சி (kuṭalvālaḻaṟci)
Thai: ไส้ติ่งอักเสบ (sâi-dtìng-àk-sèep)
Tibetan: རྒྱུ་ལྷག་གཉན་ཚད (rgyu lhag gnyan tshad)
Turkish: apandisit (tr)
Ukrainian: апендици́т (uk) m (apendycýt)
Uzbek: appenditsit (uz)
Vietnamese: viêm ruột thừa (vi)
Volapük: kekunaflamat