名詞 appendicitis:

1. inflammation of the vermiform appendix

1. The surgeon operated on her for appendicitis.
   外科醫(yī)生為她做闌尾切除手術(shù)。
2. It's acute appendicitis. We ought to operate.
   這是急性闌尾炎。應(yīng)當(dāng)開刀。
3. She's got appendicitis.
   她得了闌尾炎。

ap.pen.di.ci.tis

n.（名詞）
Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.
闌尾炎

來源：
New Latin
現(xiàn)代拉丁語
from Latin appendix appendic- [appendage] * see appendix
源自 拉丁語 appendix appendic- [附屬物] *參見 appendix

<注釋>Even though the wordappendicitis was in use in 885, the year in which theOxford English Dictionary published the section .Anta-Battening. that would have contained the word, the editor, James Murray, omitted this .crack-jaw medical and surgical word. on the advice of Oxford`s Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland.As K.M. Elisabeth Murray, the granddaughter and biographer of James Murray, points out,.The problem of what scientific words to include was a continuing one, and James Murray was always under pressure—from his advisers . . . who thought the emphasis should be on words from good literature and from those in the [Oxford University] Press who wanted to save cost and time—not to include scientific words of recent origin..In 902 no less a person than Edward VII had his appendix removed,and his coronation was postponed because of the operation.Appendicitis hence came into widespread use and has remained so, thereby pointing up the lexicographer`s difficult task of selecting the new words that people will look for in their dictionaries.
盡管appendicitis 這個(gè)詞于885年就已使用， 在這一年出版的牛津英語詞典 的.安塔族-增長論.這一分冊應(yīng)包括有這個(gè)詞， 但在牛津皇家醫(yī)學(xué)院教授亨利·溫特華斯·阿克蘭的建議下，主編詹姆斯·莫雷刪掉了這個(gè).拗口的醫(yī)學(xué)和外科用詞.。正如詹姆斯·莫雷的孫女和傳記作者K·M·伊莉莎白·莫雷指出的那樣， .應(yīng)包括什么科學(xué)用語是一個(gè)長期以來的問題，詹姆斯·莫雷經(jīng)常遇到來自他的顧問的壓力…他們認(rèn)為重點(diǎn)應(yīng)放到從好文學(xué)作品中收來的詞匯上，還受到來自出版社的壓力，他們?yōu)榱斯?jié)約成本和時(shí)間而不愿收錄新近的科學(xué)詞匯.。902年恰恰正是愛德華七世割除了闌尾，他的加冕典禮也因?yàn)檫@次手術(shù)而延遲。Appendicitis 一詞因此得到了普遍的使用并保持至今， 這也表明了詞典編纂者在選擇人們要查找的新單詞時(shí)所面臨的艱難任務(wù)