Paristhmitis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    tonsillitis archaic, uncountable

    "The melancholy issue of this case, which seemed to the general observer merely an intense form of paristhmitis or tonsillar inflammation, led me to reflect on the probable means of obviating so unfavourable a catastrophe in a disease so apparently slight."

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"The melancholy issue of this case, which seemed to the general observer merely an intense form of paristhmitis or tonsillar inflammation, led me to reflect on the probable means of obviating so unfavourable a catastrophe in a disease so apparently slight."

Etymology

From para- + isthmitis.

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