“+ noun
Etymology: New Latin, from oste- + myelitis
: an inflammatory disease of bone that may involve the marrow, cortex, or periosteum, that is caused by an infectious agent that reaches the site by way of the blood from a source in adjacent tissue or through a penetrating injury (as a laceration or compound fracture), and that produces death of tissue with separation of the devitalized portion from the viable tissue by the formation of a sequestrum