Saunders suspects the acute hepatitis to exist in the inflammation of the hepatic artery, and the chronical one in that of the vena portarum.
There is another hepatitis mentioned by authors, in which the fever, and other symptoms, are wanting, or are less violent; as described in Class II.
Acute hepatitis may terminate in chronic inflammation, abscesses, rupture of the liver, or may disappear, leaving behind no trace of disease whatever.
The terms interstitial hepatitis and sclerosis of the liver express the nature of the malady: they signify an inflammation of the intervening connective tissue, resulting in a sclerosis--an induration of the organ.
This form of hepatitis is always accompanied by the interstitial form, although the latter may be only slightly developed.
In this vast region the conditions for the production of hepatitis exist abundantly.
Suppurative hepatitis is an acute inflammation of the hepatic parenchyma, terminating in suppuration.
In those instances of secondary hepatitis there may be more or less extensive connective-tissue formation and compression of the hepatic substance (Budd).
The author has punctured the liver, penetrating well into the interior, in two cases in which no abscess was discovered, but the symptoms of hepatitis existed, with the effect to improve the symptoms.
But when thehepatitis is of septic origin, suppuration is likely to occur, the result being an hepatic abscess.
The commonest causes of this chronic hepatitis are alcoholism and syphilis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hepatitis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
