pelvic inflammatory disease

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsPID

   Broaderinflammatory disease

Questions about pelvic inflammatory disease

What does pelvic inflammatory disease mean?

pelvic inflammatory disease means "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".

What is another word for pelvic inflammatory disease?

Close synonyms include PID. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pelvic inflammatory disease a common word?

pelvic inflammatory disease 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.