English edit

Etymology edit

peri- +‎ proctitis

Noun edit

periproctitis (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) Inflammation of the tissues around the rectum.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for periproctitis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)