noun

• Inflammation of the pancreas.

  ‘Myocarditis, pancreatitis, and hepatitis have also been described occasionally in severe infections.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Heart attacks, stroke, alcoholic hepatitis or pancreatitis can cause fever.’
  • ‘The process is self limiting in most cases and pathologically correlates with oedematous interstitial pancreatitis.’
  • ‘Other effects include cardiomyopathy, peripheral neuropathy and pancreatitis.’
  • ‘The pathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis is not yet understood.’
  • ‘Nausea and vomiting caused by hypermotility or paralytic ileus secondary to pancreatitis often occurs.’
  • ‘After admission, 132 patients were assumed to have acute gallstone pancreatitis.’
  • ‘The most common causes of pancreatitis are gallstones and alcohol use.’
  • ‘It was noted that one patient had osteoporosis and another had pancreatitis.’
  • ‘Interestingly, despite the common aetiology, concomitant cirrhosis and chronic pancreatitis is rare.’