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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

阑尾炎

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lánwěiyán

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Appendicitis/əˌpɛn.dɪˈsaɪ.tɪs/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他因为急性阑尾炎被送进了医院。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Inflammation of the vermiform appendix, typically an acute condition requiring emergency surgical removal.

    "He was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and diagnosed with acute appendicitis."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin, combining the medical term 'appendix' (from Latin 'appendere', meaning 'to hang upon') with the suffix '-itis', of Greek origin denoting inflammation. First coined in the late 19th century as surgical pathology advanced to specifically describe inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

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