OSTEOMYELITIS


Meaning of OSTEOMYELITIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌmī-ə-ˈlī-təs ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin

Date: 1854

: an infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone often of bacterial origin that may result in the death of bone tissue

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.