Epiglottitis vs Epiglottis - What's the difference?
epiglottitis | epiglottis | Derived terms |
(anatomy) A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.
Epiglottitis is a derived term of epiglottis.
As nouns the difference between epiglottitis and epiglottis
is that epiglottitis is (pathology) inflammation of the epiglottis while epiglottis is (anatomy) a cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in homo sapiens also a speech organ.epiglottis
English
(wikipedia epiglottis)Noun
(en-noun)- My epiglottis is full of bees!
