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Alveolitis

  1. Alveolitis 1 (alveolitis; lat. alveolus cell, bubble, hole (lung) + lat. slovoobraz. it suffix – inflammatory process; synonym: pneumonia alveolar) – the inflammatory process proceeding in group of alveoluses (the uviform education located on a wall of a respiratory bronchiole, an alveolar sack or the alveolar course) of a lung without defeat of bronchial area. An alveolitis allergic exogenous (alveolitis allergica exogena) – the alveolitis caused by adjournment in precipitated calcium superphosphate lungs from exogenous (is more often professional) allergen and immunoglobulins;
  2. Alveolitis 2 (alveolitis; lat. alveolus cell, bubble, hole (tooth) + lat. slovoobraz. it suffix – inflammatory process) – an inflammation of walls of an alveolus (deepening in a jaw in which tooth roots are located) tooth. The alveolitis develops after an odontectomy at suppuration of a bone wound.
 
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