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TENDINITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of a tendon
Synonyms:
tendinitis; tendonitis; tenonitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("tendinitis" 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 "tendinitis"):
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))
tendonous synovitis; tendosynovitis; tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath)
