pelvic inflammatory disease

Questions about pelvic inflammatory disease

What is another word for pelvic inflammatory disease?

It depends which pelvic inflammatory disease you mean. In the sense “inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia); symptoms are abdominal pain and fever and foul-smelling vaginal discharge”, the synonyms are PID. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pelvic inflammatory disease?

WordNet records no antonym for pelvic inflammatory disease. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pelvic inflammatory disease come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pelvic inflammatory disease

• Full entry for pelvic inflammatory diseaseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pelvic inflammatory diseaseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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