Path. [mod.L., f. Gr. τυφλόν the cæcam or blind gut (neut. of τυφλός blind) + -ITIS.] Inflammation of the cæcum, cæcitis (often including that of the appendix vermiformis, now distinctively called appendicitis).
1857. in Dunglison, Med. Lex.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 427. Inflammation of the caecum … constitutes an affection called typhlitis, tuphlo-enteritis, or caecitis. Ibid., 429. The term typhlitis is applied to inflammation of the vermiform appendix as well as to caecitis.
1891. Pall Mall G., 13 May, 6/3. She died, after a short illness, of typhlitis.
Hence Typhlitic a., pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with typhlitis.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
