osteomyelitis
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- noun
- /ˌɑːstioʊˌmaɪəˈlaɪtɪs/
- Specialized
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osteomielitis
- The mainstay of treatment for osteomyelitis is long-term IV antibiotics.
- vertebral osteomyelitis
- chronic osteomyelitis
- skull base osteomyelitis
Examples
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Delayed diagnosis and treatment of osteomyelitis may lead to more severe complications.
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Finally, a physician agreed to do an MRI, and spinal osteomyelitis was discovered.
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There may be additional risk of staph osteomyelitis.
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Approximately 16 years prior to presentation, she had been diagnosed with osteomyelitis of the mandible.
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Since then, she has experienced multiple bouts of osteomyelitis that were treated with intravenous antibiotics.
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The diagnosis of vertebral osteomyelitis is nearly always dependent on radiologic study.
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The diagnoses of both Paget disease and osteomyelitis had been confirmed by previous cultures and biopsies.
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Ulcerations of the heel also frequently lead to infection and osteomyelitis of the calcaneus (12, 13).
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MRI has a sensitivity of 96% and a specificity of 92% in diagnosing vertebral osteomyelitis.
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The doctor diagnosed her with osteomyelitis after she complained of severe bone pain.
Synonyms
Pain and swelling in a bone caused by infection or injury
Surface Forms
Morphology
osteomyelitis = myelitis (opaque) = osteo + myel + itis
The term is specialized medical jargon, not easily deduced by average learners.
Etymology
Osteomyelitis breaks into oste- 'bone', myel- 'marrow', and -itis 'inflammation' (the same ending you see in tonsillitis), so it means an inflammation of the bone and its marrow, usually from infection.