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OSTEITIS
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I. (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))
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