Path. [mod.L. f. Gr. στοματ-, στόμα mouth + -ITIS.] Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth.
1859. J. Tomes, Dental Surg., 508. Follicular stomatitis is commonly associated with eruptions about the face and lips.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 527. I have traced the connection of impetigo with … ulcerative stomatitis [etc.].
Hence Stomatitic a., pertaining to or affected with stomatitis.
1901. W. H. Dolamore, in Lancet, 20 July, 133/1. Those unhappy children who are born with teeth—blighted probably by stomatitic inflammation in utero—which are teeth but in name.
