Definition of "metritis" []

• Inflammation of the uterus. (noun)

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• "Your mare retained her afterbirth when she foaled and she developed metritis."
• "When, therefore, during an attack of septic metritis a condition of laminitis supervenes, we are justified in attributing it to the escape of septic matter from the already infected uterus."
• "Neither can it be advocated in the laminitis occurring as a sequel to septic metritis or to pneumonia."