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perityphlitis

[‚per·ə′tif·ləd·əs]

(medicine)

Inflammation of the peritoneum surrounding the cecum and vermiform appendix.

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It appears that the first surgical treatment for appendicitis or perityphlitis without abscess was carried out by Hancock in 1848.

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