Definition of Myelitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the spinal cord.

Generic synonyms: Inflammation, Redness, Rubor

Definition of Myelitis

1. n. Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

Definition of Myelitis

1. Noun. inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Myelitis

1. inflammation of the bone marrow [n -LITIDES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myelitis

myelinate
myelinated
myelinated nerve fiber
myelinates
myelinating
myelination
myelinations
myeline
myelines
myelinic
myelinisation
myelinization
myelinogenesis
myelins
myelitides
myelitis (current term)
myelo-
myeloablated
myeloablation
myeloablative
myeloblast
myeloblastic
myeloblastic leukemia
myeloblastosis
myeloblasts
myelocoele
myelocoeles
myelocyte
myelocytes
myelocytic

Literary usage of Myelitis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(b) The Different Forms of myelitis This term is used to include the degenerative, ... myelitis Involving both the White and the Gray Matter This may occupy ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"Pathology of So-Called Acute myelitis.—H. Douglas Singer gives a brief historical resume of the pathology, describes the morbid anatomy in two cases of ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"This latter is no proof against the infectious nature of myelitis, because experimental ... Thus in my fifth case, in which the myelitis had begun acutely, ..."

4. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"myelitis " is the name we give to those inflammatory degenerative ... The name of myelitis has probably been used up to the present time for several quite ..."

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