osteitis

NOUN
  1. inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration
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  • Those who are advocates of the theory that this type of osteitis with its complications has its origin in the articular portion of the joint, claim that the upright pastern constitutes an important tendency toward ringbone. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • The infection may extend to the cartilaginous skeleton of the ear canal and through Santorini's fissures to reach the temporal bone, causing osteitis.
  • [Illustration: Fig. 18 -- Rarefying osteitis in chronic ringbone and ossification of lateral cartilages.] Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Surgery has a definite but increasingly limited role in the treatment of osteitis of the base of the skull.
  • Skeletal radiographs showed linear radiolucencies in the metaphyses of the long bones and lucent areas in the iliac bones, consistent with osteitis.
  • There were three major complications; two were due to infection causing osteitis and the other developed stenosis of the external ear canal.
  • Dogs with panosteitis usually respond to analgesics such as aspirin or phenylbutazone.
  • Before there is evidence of an exostosis, diagnosis of ringbone is not easy, for it is then a problem of detecting the presence of a ligamentous sprain, periostitis, or osteitis. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • [Illustration: Fig. 30 -- Rarefying osteitis wherein articular cartilage was destroyed in a case of arthritis of fetlock joint.] Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • An orthopedic doctor diagnosed the injury as osteitis pubis, an inflamed pubic bone, and sent him for a bone scan that involved him taking radioactive isotopes. Archive 2009-07-01
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