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CELLULITIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does cellulitis mean?

• CELLULITIS (noun)
The noun CELLULITIS has 1 sense:

1. an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain

Familiarity information: CELLULITIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CELLULITIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cellulitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

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