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osteitis

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osteitis [‚ä·stē′īd·əs]
(medicine)
Inflammation of bone.


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In December I sought out an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine who, after examining me and looking at my MRI, told me I had osteitis pubis.
Kasem Al-Asbahi, deputy of the Yemeni Neurosurgeons Association, stated that most common diseases of the backbone in Yemen included deformity, fractures, back pain, cancerous tumor, cute and chronic osteitis in the spinal cord and backbone.
Its indications include the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, osteitis deformans ("Paget's disease of bone"), bone metastasis (with or without hypercalcaemia), multiple myeloma, osteogenesis imperfecta and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
 
 
 
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