vitritis

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noun

inflammation associated with the vitreous humor

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Meanings

nounvitritis (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineinflammation associated with the vitreous humor

    After another week with no change in oral prednisone dosage at 60 mg PO QD, the vitritis and retinitis returned OU with worsening vision to CF OD, 20/100 OS, and persistently elevated pressures.

    2015 July 23, Kevin P Stewart et al., “Combination immunotherapy in the treatment of chronic bilateral panuveitis and uveitic glaucoma during acute dengue fever infection in the Caribbean”, in International Medical Case Reports Journal, volume 8, →DOI

Origin

From vitreous humor + -itis.

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