EPICONDYLITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Painful inflammation of the muscles and soft tissues around an epicondyle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("epicondylitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epicondylitis"):

lateral epicondylitis; lateral humeral epicondylitis; tennis elbow (painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand))

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