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Myelitis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Inflammation of the spinal column.

n. Osteomyelitis.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

n. Inflammation of bone marrow.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In pathology, inflammation of the spinal cord.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. inflammation of the spinal cord

Word Usage

"Near the end of a trip to spring training to cover the Cardinals, Fallstrom experienced numbness in his arms and legs and was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, which is inflammation of the spinal cord."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rubor inflammation redness

Cross Reference

disseminated myelitis compression myelitis ascending myelitis anterior cornual myelitis cavitary myelitis

Form

encephalomyelitis poliomyelitis osteomyelitis

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Words that are found in similar contexts

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