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6 unusual facts about -itis


Itis

Integrated Transport Information System, a traffic management system in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Integrated Taxonomic Information System, a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species

Postprandial somnolence (colloquially "the Itis"), a state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal

Itis shopping centre, a shopping centre in the district of Itäkeskus in East Helsinki, Finland

Love-Itis

Love-Itis is a song written by Harvey Scales and Albert Vance (with Rudy Jacobs also initially acknowledged as a co-writer), originally recorded by Harvey Scales and The Seven Sounds.

Reactive gastropathy

Etymologically, "gastritis", in this context, is a misnomer as the process is not predominantly inflammatory, i.e. the condition is not an -itis.


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Annals of Pediatric Cardiology

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Hiromichi Kono

He performed taxonomic work in Coleoptera as well, describing a new genus of Lycid beetle, Benibotarus (ITIS).

Periodontitis

The word "periodontitis" comes from the Greek peri, "around", odous (genitive odontos), "tooth", and the suffix -itis, in medical terminology "inflammation".

Reactive gastropathy

Steatohepatitis is another example of this; it is not a process with significant inflammation yet, confusingly, carries the -itis ending.