Meanings
- obsoleteuncountabletonsillitis
In discussing the question of the treatment of acute articular rheumatism, with its associated diseases, such as endocarditis, chorea, and amygdalitis, it is well to review briefly the question of the ætiology of rheumatic fever.
1911 October 14, Gordon Wilson, “The treatment of the portal of entry of systemic diseases”, in New York Medical Journal, volume 94, number 16, page 765
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀμυγδάλη“almond”
- Latinamygdala
- Englishamygdalitis
From amygdala, amygdale (“tonsils”) + -itis, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”), named for the almond-shape.
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