OSTEOMYELITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does osteomyelitis mean? 

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

1. an inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTEOMYELITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("osteomyelitis" is a kind of...):

osteitis (inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration)

 Context examples 

Osteomyelitis can cause severe pain in the infected bone.

(Osteomyelitis, NCI Dictionary)

Together, these findings show that diet affects osteomyelitis in susceptible mice by altering the intestinal microbiota, which in turn influence IL-1β levels in distant neutrophils.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

H. influenzae is an opportunistic pathogen causing a wide variety of infections including osteomyelitis, meningitis, conjunctivitis and pneumonia.

(Haemophilus influenzae, NCI Thesaurus)

This suggests that the high-fat diet suppressed osteomyelitis in the susceptible mice by affecting levels of IL-1β.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

Conversely, transplanting the microbiota of high-fat-fed mice into young mice limited Prevotella and protected mice from osteomyelitis.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

Antibiotics protected the regular-diet mutant mice from osteomyelitis.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

Transplanting the microbiota of regular-fed mutant mice to young mice boosted Prevotella levels and sped osteomyelitis.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

A team led by Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital studied mutant mice that develop a condition resembling chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in humans.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)