acute glossitis

1. 1.

   glossitis resulting from injury or infection and characterized by swelling and pain

   Broaderglossitis

Questions about acute glossitis

What does acute glossitis mean?

acute glossitis means "glossitis resulting from injury or infection and characterized by swelling and pain".

Is acute glossitis a common word?

acute glossitis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.