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COSTOCHONDRITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does costochondritis mean?
• COSTOCHONDRITIS (noun)
The noun COSTOCHONDRITIS has 1 sense:
1. inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage
Familiarity information: COSTOCHONDRITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("costochondritis" 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)
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