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salpingitis

 [sal″pin-ji´tis]
1. inflammation of a fallopian tube.
2. inflammation of the eustachian tube.
Salpingitis. Infection in fallopian tubes causes them to become enlarged, hyperemic, and tender. McKinney et al., 2000.
mural salpingitis (parenchymatous salpingitis) pachysalpingitis.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

sal·pin·gi·tis

(sal'pin-jī'tis),
1. Inflammation of the uterine tube.
2. Inflammation of the pharyngotympanic tube.
[salping- + G. -itis, inflammation]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

salpingitis

(săl′pĭn-jī′tĭs)
n.
Inflammation of the fallopian or eustachian tube.
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salpingitis

ENT
An obsolete term for inflammatiooccidianustachian tube.
 
Gynaecology
(1) Inflammation of the fallopian tube.
(2) Pelvic inflammatory disease.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

sal·pin·gi·tis

(sal'pin-jī'tis)
Inflammation of the uterine or the auditory tube.
[salping- + G. -itis, inflammation]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

salpingitis

Inflammation of a FALLOPIAN TUBE, usually as a result of infection that has spread from the vagina or womb (uterus). Salpingitis may be caused by chlamydial infection, GONORRHOEA or an infection acquired after childbirth.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

Salpingitis

Inflammation of the fallopian tube.
Mentioned in: Ectopic Pregnancy
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This study revealed a 7.8% overall occurrence of reproductive organ/tract abnormalities which consisted of ovarian hypoplasia, cystic ovaries, endometritis, pyometra, hydrometra, haematosalpinx, salpingitis, cervical atresia, vaginitis, and vulvovaginitis in does slaughtered at Nyagatare abattoir in the Eastern Province of Rwanda.
(1,2,4,5) This seems to be supported by a case of mild salpingitis which revealed an M.
Asi mismo, son relatadas complicaciones de ruptura del huevo o trauma del oviducto, con desarrollo consecuente de celomitis por la presencia del huevo en el celoma; entre tanto, los huevos retenidos por muchos dias que se degeneran y en ocasiones se rompen, pueden llevar a una salpingitis, con presencia de inflamacion y adherencia (Stahl 2002).
Clinical manifestations of STD, for example, Chlamydia range from Urethritis, Epididymitis, Orchitis, Infertility in men to Cervicitis, Endometritis, Salpingitis, PID, infertility and Perihepatitis in women; and untreated STDs that display such manifestations are often fatal.
Gross lesions including air sacculitis, salpingitis, putrefied eggs in ovary, and hemorrhages in trachea and lungs were detected.
Tubal and cervical cultures in acute salpingitis with special reference to Mycoplasma hominis and T-strain mycoplasmas.
The most common manifestations associated with the clinical presentation of colibacillosis are airsacculitis, perihepatitis, pericarditis, salpingitis, omphalitis, coligranuloma, cellulitis, swollen head syndrome, and sepsis [2, 3].