metritis

English

Etymology

metro- +‎ -itis

Noun

metritis (countable and uncountable, plural metritides)

1. (medicine) Inflammation of the uterus.

   Synonym: (obsolete) hysteritis

   • 1888, Georges Apostoli, On a New Treatment of Chronic Metritis:

     The conjunctive tissue, young and succulent, then becomes hard and fibrous, and the uterus, on section, is pale, indurated and devoid of blood; that is chronic metritis which has reached the second period, or period of induration.

   • 2008, Thomas J. Divers, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 411:

     The use of systemic antibiotics is justified and often required for metritis that causes systemic illness.

Derived terms

• mesometritis
• parametritis