Gastritis is a medical term, used in health care settings.

Medical Condition

'Chronic' means long-lasting, 'acute' means severe but short-term; both can describe gastritis.

Chronic vs Acute

Gastritis symptoms resemble other conditions; context helps clarify meaning.

Symptom Overlap

 bloating, and vomiting. Ten days later, a camera called an endoscope peered inside his insides. Marshall's stomach was teeming with the same bacteria as his patient. He'd also developed gastritis, or severe inflammation of the stomach,

The surprising cause of...

 The message, the implied threat, was clear. Over the next few weeks, I was replaced by a convenient yes-man while I was still there. I suffered from terrible gastritis, and I pretended to our two young daughters