- apicitis
- api·ci·tis .ā-pə-'sīt-əs, .ap-ə- n, pl -ci·tes -'sī-.tēz inflammation of an anatomical apex (as of a lung, the root of a tooth, or the petrous portion of the temporal bone)
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api·ci·tis (a″pĭ-siґtis) [apic- + -itis] inflammation of an apex, as the apex of a tooth, of the lung, or of the petrous portion of the temporal bone (petrositis).
Medical dictionary. 2011.