ADENITIS

(a gland), a term used in medicine to indicate inflammation of the pends and ganglia, but especially of the ymphatic glands. It may be either acute or chronic; in the former case it generally comes from a skin wound or sore, the glands swell and are extremely painful; in the latter case the cause| may be syphilis or tuberculosis, in which} the glands swell and symptoms of both diseases are generally found.