(pathology) A group of diseases featuring inflammation of the wall of blood vessels.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
vasculitis
Plural:
vasculitides
Vasculitis Sentence Examples
Vasculitis is not a distinctive disease in its own right, but rather a symptom or characteristic of a number of different diseases.
His special areas of interest include renal physiology, vasculitis, dialysis and critical care nephrology.
The first stage is to consider that systemic vasculitis might be present in any patient with multisystem disease.
Vasculitides is the plural of the word vasculitis, which may be used to describe any disorder characterized by inflammation of the blood or lymph vessels.
Vasculitis may damage blood vessels in two different ways.