NOUN
- inflammation of the temporal arteries; characterized by headaches and difficulty chewing and (sometimes) visual impairment
How To Use temporal arteritis In A Sentence
- I worried, I fretted, I went to see my gp, and a locum--substitute personnel filling in temporarily, for all my non-UK friends--scared me with a possible diagnosis of temporal arteritis, which my regular gp then negated. Belated Birthday Spanking:
- Temporal arteritis needs urgent treatment so please don't delay. Times, Sunday Times
- Temporal arteritis is inflammation of medium and large sized arteries especially the carotid in the neck and its branches.
- Giant cell arteritis, or temporal arteritis, is an inflammatory disorder of large and medium-sized arteries affected with granulomatous lesions containing T cells and macrophages.
- Low-dose treatment should not be used in patients with symptoms suggestive of temporal arteritis.
- Polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis are closely related inflammatory conditions that affect different cellular targets in genetically predisposed persons.
- The most common systemic vasculitis in adults is temporal arteritis.
