noun

• Inflammation of the fallopian tubes.

  ‘Endometritis and salpingitis are thought to be components of pelvic inflammatory disease.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Pelvic inflammatory disease comprises a variety of inflammatory disorders of the upper female genital tract, including endometritis, salpingitis, tubo-ovarian abscess, and pelvic peritonitis.’
  • ‘He also postulated that C trachomatis was a cause of pelvic inflammatory disease after noting that mothers whose babies had chlamydial ophthalmia neonatorum had symptoms of salpingitis.’
  • ‘After acute salpingitis, the risk of an ectopic pregnancy is increased sevenfold.’
  • ‘Hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy specimens revealed uterine leiomyomas, adenomyosis, and acute salpingitis.’