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OSTEITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does osteitis mean? 

OSTEITIS (noun)
  The noun OSTEITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degenerationplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


OSTEITIS (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))


 Context examples 


Osteitis deformans occurs most frequently in the pelvic and leg bones, skull, and lower spine.

(Osteitis deformans, NCI Dictionary)

A chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by hyperostosis, osteitis, synovitis and palmoplantar pustulosis.

(Acquired Hyperostosis Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called osteitis deformans.

(Paget disease of bone, NCI Dictionary)



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