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RETINITIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does retinitis mean?

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

1. inflammation of the retina

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

Dictionary entry details

• RETINITIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Inflammation of the retina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("retinitis" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retinitis"):

chorioretinitis (inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina)

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