cholangitis
noun
cholangitis is a noun meaning “An inflammation of the bile duct” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-L-A-N-G-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cholangitis is cholangitides.
What does cholangitis mean?
noun
- 1
An inflammation of the bile duct.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cholangitis
- cholangitides plural
- cholangeitis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholangitis?
Cholangitis appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cholangitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of the bile duct:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Cholangitis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cholangitis come from?
From cholangio- + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).