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Tenosynovitis

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

n. Inflammation of a tendon sheath.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (the synovium) that surrounds a tendon.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Inflammation of the synovial sheath of a tendon.

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

n. inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath

Word Usage

"Whether or not it was carpal tunnel syndrome before, now I have been diagnosed with De Quervain's tenosynovitis, which is just a really fancy way of saying inflamed thumb tendons."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tendonitis tenonitis tendinitis synovitis