Path. [mod.L., f. Gr. λίν-ον flax + -ITIS: see quot.] ‘Inflammation of the areolar tissue which surrounds the blood-vessels of the stomach’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889).
1859. Brinton, Dis. Stomach, v. 310. Cirrhotic inflammation or plastic linitis. Ibid., 321, note. I would suggest that the inflammation of the filamentous network of areolar tissue … might be well expressed by some such word as linitis (from the Homeric λίνον, rete ex lino factum). Ibid., 331. Suppuration of the areolar tissue, or suppurative linitis.
