mastitis

Meaning of mastitis

noun

inflammation of the mammary gland in the breast or udder, typically due to bacterial infection via a damaged nipple or teat.

mid 19th century: from Greek mastos ‘breast’ + -itis.

Information about mastitis

Hyphenation of mastitis

mas-ti-tis

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • mastitis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of mastitis

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