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pericarditis
This term is a specialized medical diagnosis used to describe the inflammation of the heart's outer protective layer. It carries a clinical and sterile connotation, typically appearing in medical reports, cardiology textbooks, or patient charts rather than in casual conversation.
As a medical condition named with the suffix -itis, it is treated as an uncountable noun. It does not have a plural form in standard clinical usage; one does not refer to multiple instances of the disease as pericarditises, but rather speaks of cases or occurrences of pericarditis.
Meanings
Examples
The patient was diagnosed with acute pericarditis after complaining of sharp chest pain.
I wonder if this chest pressure is a sign of pericarditis.
The doctor explained that pericarditis occurs when the sac around the heart becomes inflamed.
You will need to take anti-inflammatory medication to treat the pericarditis.
Could this be a case of constrictive pericarditis?
He recovered from pericarditis after a few weeks of bed rest and medication.
Pericarditis can sometimes follow a viral infection.