Inflammation of a cavern or cavity, particularly in medical contexts referring to pathological cavities in organs like the lungs.
From Latin 'caverna' (cavern) plus '-itis' (medical suffix meaning inflammation); a medical term for inflamed cavitary lesions.
Cavernitis in tuberculosis creates these dark shadows on chest X-rays—physicians literally see hollow caverns forming in lungs as the disease progresses.
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