Which medical term means inflammation of appendix?

A) appendicitis
B) appenditis
C) appendicopathy
D) appendicosis


A) appendicitis
Appendic/o means appendix and -itis means inflammation; therefore, appendicitis
is inflammation of the appendix. Append/o does mean appendix, but appenditis is not the medical
term we use. -pathy means disease, so appendicopathy means appendix disease. -osis means
abnormal condition; thus, appendicosis would mean abnormal condition of the appendix.

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