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endocarditis(encyclopedia)
Endocarditis(health)
Endocarditis (SBE)(health)
Endocarditis(medicine)
marantic endocarditis(medicine)
malignant endocarditis(medicine)
endocarditis chordalis(medicine)

etio- (medicine) and endocarditis (sh)


etio- (medicine)


etio-


1. Prefix used with (for example) cholane to indicate replacement of the C-17 side chain by H; thus, etiocholane is the 5b isomer of androstane.

2. Combining form meaning cause.

Origin: G. Aitia, cause


endocarditis (sh)




Inflammation of the heart lining (endocardium), in association with a noninfectious disease (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus) or caused by infection, usually at the heart valves.

Severe bacterial infection causes an acute form with fever, sweating, chills, joint pain and swelling, and embolisms. Subacute endocarditis usually comes from bacteria that do not ordinarily cause disease. Bacterial endocarditis is usually treated with long-term antibiotics. In nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, blood clots form along heart valve edges.