Home › Words › T › tubulitistubulitistubulitis means inflammation of a tubule.EtymologyFrom tubule + -itis.nouninflammation of a tubulee.g.“Moreover, 2 of 4 patients with secondary diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis showed tubulitis, a feature associated with tubular injury.” — 2014 November 20, Xu Zeng et al., “Urinary β2-Microglobulin Is a Good Indicator of Proximal Tubule Injury: A Correlative Study with Renal Biopsies”, in Journal of biomarkers, volume 2014, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).