OSTEITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("osteitis" 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 "osteitis"):

osteitis deformans; Paget's disease (a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities)

osteomyelitis (an inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection))

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