Obscuring inflammation on a pap smear means that there were so many white blood cells in the sample, it was difficult to assess the health of the squamous cells. Ask your health care provider what, if any, follow up is needed for this result given your specific history.
Occasionally a patient with repeated pap smears noting "NIL with partially obscuring inflammation" may be later found to have a precancerous lesion on the cervix, but inflammation of the cervix, or a finding on colposcopy biopsy of chronic inflammation, does not in itself indicate cervical cancer.
Words that end in -itis mean inflammation of. Like tendonitis means inflammation of tendons. Appendicitis means inflammation of the appendix.
"-Itis" refers to inflammation. For example, appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix. Another example is cholecystitis, which is an inflammation of the gallbladder.
Yes, carditis means inflammation of the heart.
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A lot of people use it to mean infection as well.
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It means an inflammation of the stomach. Gastro- = stomach + -itis = inflammation. It doesn't say why however.
I think you mean "appendicitis," which is an inflammation of the appendix.
No. It means presence of stones in the gall bladder. Cholangitis is the inflammation of bile ducts.
a medicine intended to reduce inflammation