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proctitis

[ prok-tahy-tis ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. inflammation of the rectum and anus.


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Example Sentences

Hardly a civilized man escapes proctitis from the day of the diaper to that of death.

The scientific diagnosis of constipation predicates proctitis and sometimes colitis.

There is a legion of secondary symptoms of proctitis, all of which medical empiricism considers and denominates causes.

Abnormal irritability of the bowels is necessarily involved in the inflammatory process known as proctitis and colitis.

Pile formations are a symptom of chronic proctitis of fifteen, twenty or more years duration.

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