gastritis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating

   Broaderinflammation

   Narroweracute gastritischronic gastritis

Other forms of gastritis

plural

gastritises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gastritis

What does gastritis mean?

gastritis means "inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating".

How many syllables are in gastritis?

gastritis has 3 syllables: ga-stri-tis. The stress falls on "stri". In IPA it is /ɡæˈstɹaɪtəs/.

Is gastritis a common word?

gastritis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.