cholecystitis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English cholecyst

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -itisder.

English -itis

English cholecystitis

From cholecyst + -itis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkoʊ.lə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/, /ˌkɑl.ə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒl.ə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪtɪs
• Hyphenation: cho‧le‧cy‧sti‧tis

Noun

cholecystitis (usually uncountable, plural cholecystites or cholecystitides)

1. (pathology) An inflammation of the gall bladder.

Derived terms

• pericholecystitis

Translations

inflammation of the gall bladder

• Catalan: colecistitis f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膽囊炎 / 胆囊炎 (zh) (dǎnnángyán)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: cholecystitis (nl) f, galblaasontsteking f
• Esperanto: ĥolecistito, kolecistito
• Finnish: sappirakontulehdus, kolekystiitti (fi)
• French: cholécystite (fr) f
• German: Gallenblasenentzündung (de) f
• Icelandic: gallblöðrubólga f
• Japanese: 胆嚢炎 (ja) (たんのうえん, tannōen)
• Korean: 쓸개염 (sseulgaeyeom), 담낭염(膽囊炎) (ko) (damnang'yeom)
• Portuguese: colecistite f
• Russian: холецисти́т (ru) m (xolecistít)
• Spanish: colecistitis (es) f
• Vietnamese: viêm túi mật