SPONDYLITIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spondylitis" 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 "spondylitis"):

ankylosing spondylitis; Marie-Strumpell disease; rheumatoid spondylitis (a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis)

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