EPICONDYLITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epicondylitis mean? 

• EPICONDYLITIS (noun)
  The noun EPICONDYLITIS has 1 sense:

1. painful inflammation of the muscles and soft tissues around an epicondyle

  Familiarity information: EPICONDYLITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPICONDYLITIS (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))

 Context examples 

The route is used for local therapy in various conditions of the tendinous or bursal structures such as tendinitis, tenosynovitis, epicondylitis, etc. Depending on indications and the drug, injection could be done into the tendon sheath or into the substance of the tendon.

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