Typhlitis
noun, Pathology.
1.
inflammation of the cecum.
noun
1.
inflammation of the caecum
2.
an obsolete name for appendicitis
typhlitis typh·li·tis (tĭf-lī’tĭs)
n.
See cecitis.
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