Arteritis

(ar-te-ri' -tis). Inflammation of an artery. The acute form, always local, is generally consecutive to trauma, thrombosis, or embolism, and may be purulent in character, and attended with ulceration; the chronic, more properly End arteritis, q. v., arterial sclerosis, leading to atheroma or atheromatous changes, is a frequent disease of the aged. A. deformans, the result of atheromatous changes producing crumpling or irregularities of the walls. See Chronic End arteritis. A. obliterans, great inflammatory development of the endothelium of an artery, resulting in obliteration of the lumen by thrombosis. See End arteritis obliterans.