Glutitis, a medical term referring to inflammation of the gluteus muscles, is spelled /ɡlutɪtɪs/. The first syllable begins with the voiced velar stop /ɡ/ followed by the lateral approximant /l/. The second syllable features the close back unrounded vowel /ʌ/, followed by the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/. Lastly, the final syllable consists of the unstressed vowel /ɪ/ and the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. The spelling of this word follows typical English orthographic conventions, representing the phoneme to grapheme correspondence of the IPA transcription.
Inflammation of the muscles of the buttock.
A practical medical dictionary. By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop. Published 1920.