Stomatitis.
DEFINITION.—Inflammation of the interior of the mouth.
The term Stomatitis is used to designate inflammatory affections of the mucous membranes of the structures of the interior of the mouth, including thus the mucous membrane of the lips, gums, tongue, cheek, palate, and anatomical adnexes. Inflammatory affections of the mucous membrane of the palate, palatine folds, and tonsils are usually described more particularly under the heads of angina, sore throat, and tonsillitis.
Stomatitis occurs idiopathically, deuteropathically, and traumatically.
Several varieties of stomatitis occur, sufficiently characteristic to require separate description: viz. erythematous or catarrhal, aphthous or vesicular, folliculous or glandular, pseudo-membranous or diphtheritic, ulcerous, gangrenous, cryptogamous or parasitic, and toxic.
Stomatitis Catarrhalis.
Simple, superficial, erythematous, or catarrhal stomatitis; pultaceous stomatitis.
DEFINITION.—A simple inflammation or erythema, general or partial, of the mucous membrane of the interior of the mouth.
It occurs both in adults and in children, and may be primary or secondary, acute or chronic. In adults and adolescents it accompanies catarrhal and ulcerous affections of the throat, and is described, therefore, to a certain extent, in connection with these affections.