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While an ultrasound couldn't confirm it, there was a strong suspicion of cholecystitis, an infection that makes gallstones even more dangerous.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025 Treatment of cholecystitis often involves the removal of the gallbladder.—
Robin Elise Weiss, Phd,
Parents,
1 July 2024 The 87-year-old justice underwent non-surgical treatment for what the court described as acute cholecystitis, a benign gall bladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.—
Mark Sherman,
Anchorage Daily News,
6 May 2020 According to prison records, the cause of death was cardiac arrest combined with acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder infection that is often the product of trauma.—
Joan Acocella,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2019
Word History
Etymology
cholecyst "gall bladder" (borrowed from New Latin choilecystis, from chole-chole- + -cystis-cyst) + -itis