appendicitis

English

Etymology

From appendic- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛnd.ɪ.saɪt.əs/

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Noun

appendicitis (countable and uncountable, plural appendicitises or appendicitides or appendicites)

1. (pathology) inflammation of the vermiform appendix
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

     It was appendicitis of that insidious and misleading type to which children are particularly liable.

Derived terms

• pseudoappendicitis
• spendicitis

Translations

inflammation of the vermiform appendix

• Arabic: الْتِهابُ الزَّائِدَةِ الدُّودِيَّة m (al-tihābu z-zāʔidati d-dūdiyya)
• Armenian: ապենդիցիտ (hy) (apendicʻit), կուրաղետապ (kuraġetap) (Western Armenian)
• Azerbaijani: appendisit (az)
• Belarusian: апендыцы́т m (apjendycýt), апэндыцы́т m (apendycýt)
• Bulgarian: апендици́т m (apendicít)
• Catalan: apendicitis f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闌尾炎 / 阑尾炎 (zh) (lánwěiyán), 盲腸炎 / 盲肠炎 (zh) (mángchángyán)

• Czech: zánět slepého střeva m, apendicitida f
• Danish: blindtarmsbetændelse (da) c
• Dutch: blindedarmontsteking (nl) f, appendicitis (nl) f
• Esperanto: apendicito
• Estonian: apenditsiit
• Faroese: blindgarnarbruni m, ágarnarbruni m
• Finnish: umpilisäkkeen tulehdus (fi), appendisiitti
• French: appendicite (fr) f
• Galician: apendicite (gl) f
• Georgian: აპენდიციტი (aṗendiciṭi)
• German: Blinddarmentzündung (de) f, (scientific) Appendizitis (de)
• Greek: σκωληκοειδίτιδα (el) f (skolikoeidítida)
• Hebrew: דלקת התוספתן f (daléket hatoseftán)
• Hungarian: (in common parlance) vakbélgyulladás (hu), (technically) féregnyúlvány-gyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: botnlangabólga (is) f
• Indonesian: apendisitis (id)
• Interlingua: appendicitis
• Italian: appendicite (it) f
• Japanese: 虫垂炎 (ja) (ちゅうすいえん, chūsuien), 盲腸炎 (もうちょうえん, mōchōen)
• Kazakh: соқырішек (soqyrışek)
• Khmer: បរិសិដ្ឋរោគ (paʼresətthaʼrook)
• Korean: 충수염(蟲垂炎) (chungsuyeom), 맹장염(盲腸炎) (maengjang'yeom)
• Latin: appendicitis
• Latvian: apendicīts m
• Lithuanian: apendicitas m
• Macedonian: воспаление на слепо црево n (vospalenie na slepo crevo)
• Malay: radang apendiks vermiformis, apendisitis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: appendisitt m, blindtarmsbetennelse m

  Nynorsk: appendisitt m, blindtarmsbetennelse m, blindtarmbetennelse m

• Persian: آپاندیسیت (fa) (âpândisit)
• Polish: zapalenie wyrostka n, zapalenie wyrostka robaczkowego (pl) n
• Portuguese: apendicite (pt) f
• Romanian: apendicită (ro) f
• Russian: аппендици́т (ru) m (appendicít)
• Slovak: zápal slepého čreva m, apendicitída (sk) f
• Spanish: apendicitis (es) f
• Swedish: blindtarmsinflammation (sv) c, appendicit (sv) c
• Tagalog: apendisitis
• Tamil: குடல்வாலழற்சி (kuṭalvālaḻaṟci)
• Thai: ไส้ติ่งอักเสบ (sâi-dtìng-àk-sèep)
• Tibetan: རྒྱུ་ལྷག་གཉན་ཚད (rgyu lhag gnyan tshad)
• Turkish: apandisit (tr)
• Ukrainian: апендици́т (uk) m (apendycýt)
• Uzbek: appenditsit (uz)
• Vietnamese: viêm ruột thừa (vi)
• Volapük: kekunaflamat