panniculitis
/pəˌnɪkjʊˈlaɪtɪs/noun
panniculitis is a noun meaning “inflammation of the panniculus adiposus, or subcutaneous adipose tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-N-N-I-C-U-L-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of panniculitis is panniculitides.
What does panniculitis mean?
noun
- 1
inflammation of the panniculus adiposus, or subcutaneous adipose tissue
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce panniculitis?
- /pəˌnɪkjʊˈlaɪtɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of panniculitis
- panniculitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is panniculitis?
Panniculitis appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Panniculitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | paniculitis |
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 panniculitis come from?
From panniculus + -itis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).