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Your bladder filing an angry, burning complaint about recent decisions.
means An inflammation of the bladder, usually caused by a bacterial infection, that makes urination frequent, urgent, and painful.
from Built from Greek parts: 'kystis' meaning bladder or pouch, plus the medical suffix '-itis' meaning inflammation — the same '-itis' that turns joints into arthritis and tonsils into tonsillitis. The suffix became medicine's go-to ending in the 1800s as doctors standardized disease-naming, so cystitis is really just Greek for 'the bladder is throwing a fit.'
- what it is
- inflammation of the bladder, usually from bacterial infection
- usual suspect
- e. coli traveling from the gut to urethra
- risk factor
- anatomy makes it far more common in women
- not optional
- untreated, it can climb to the kidneys