TENDINITIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Inflammation of a tendon

Synonyms:

tendinitis; tendonitis; tenonitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tendinitis" 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 "tendinitis"):

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))

tendonous synovitis; tendosynovitis; tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath)