Definition of "cystitis" []

• Inflammation of the urinary bladder. (noun)

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• "IC has symptoms similar to those of the common urinary tract infection known as cystitis."
• "These are also called cystitis or inflammation of the bladder."
• "C. Lowell Parsons, M.D., a director of Urigen, is a leader in medical research into the causes and treatment of interstitial cystitis, which is a painful bladder syndrome with typical cystoscopic and/or histological features in the absence of infection or other pathology, and has published over 200 scientific articles and book chapters in this area describing his work."