Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pelvic_inflammatory_disease

1 sense of pelvic inflammatory disease

Sense 1
pelvic inflammatory disease, PID -- (inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia); symptoms are abdominal pain and fever and foul-smelling vaginal discharge)
       => inflammatory disease -- (a disease characterized by inflammation)