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osteomyelitis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | osteitis |
Examples of osteomyelitis
osteomyelitis
She had osteomyelitis, an infection that was eating away at the bone in her toe.
From the washingtonpost.com
The wife suffers from an osteomyelitis ankle and foot infection and diabetes.
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He had a deformed right leg, the result either of club foot or osteomyelitis.
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He was sick with osteomyelitis and had been told he had three months to live.
From the sfgate.com
Possible complications include meningitis, pneumonia, pericarditis and osteomyelitis.
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Bone disease, or osteomyelitis, affects 1 in 5,000 people around the world.
From the sciencedaily.com
Untreated, osteomyelitis can become chronic and lead to the death of the affected bone.
From the washingtonpost.com
They also used data from 237 osteomyelitis patients treated at the University of Michigan.
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He suffered from chronic osteomyelitis for the last 7 years of his life.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- An inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection)
- Osteomyelitis (osteo- derived from the Greek word osteon, meaning bone, myelo- meaning marrow, and -itis meaning inflammation) simply means an infection of the bone or bone marrow. Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abul K.; Fausto, Nelson; & Mitchell, Richard N. (2007). Robbins Basic Pathology (8th ed.). ...
- An acute or chronic inflammatory condition affecting bone and its medullary cavity, usually the result of bacterial (occasionally viral) infection of bone. ...
- An infection in the bone.
- Inflammation of bone caused by a pyogenic organism. It may remain localized or may spread through the bone to involve the marrow, cortex, cancellous tissue, and periosteum.
- An inflammatory disease of bone caused usually by infection with streptococcus or staphylococcus.
- An inflammation of the bone by organisms causing a buildup of pus. It can spread from one bone to another or remain localized and may ultimately require limbs to be amputated due to the damage. Osteomyelitis is one of the most devastating conditions that can be caused by coccidioidomycosis.
- Tuberculosis of the bones - a bacterial disease that afflicted David Frankfurter (assassin of Wilhelm Gustloff).
- A bone infection caused by bacteria.
