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SPONDYLITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("spondylitis" 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 "spondylitis"):
ankylosing spondylitis; Marie-Strumpell disease; rheumatoid spondylitis (a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis)
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