Clinical Diagnosis · Digestive System · Medium
Cholangitis
Meaning: Infection and inflammation of the bile ducts, often due to blockage, causing fever, jaundice and abdominal pain.
In practice: Charcot's triad of fever, jaundice and pain pointed to ascending cholangitis.
Word parts
- -itis means inflammation
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