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arteritis

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arteritis

Inflammation of the arteries. It occurs in diseases including syphilis, tuberculosis, and lupus erythematosus. Varieties not closely associated with systemic disease or disease of an organ outside the cardiovascular system have been described as temporal arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and polyarteritis nodosa.

arteritis [‚ärd·ə′rīd·əs]
(medicine)
Inflammation of an artery.
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