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paristhmitis en · NOUN

Etymology

From para- + isthmitis.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) tonsillitis
    • 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. 1834 July 14, David Craigie, “Observations, Pathological and Therapeutic, on a particular species of Quinsy or Angina”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 27: