Definition of Myositis

1. Noun. Inflammation of muscle tissue.


Definition of Myositis

1. n. Inflammation of the muscles.

Definition of Myositis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the muscles. ¹

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Definition of Myositis

1. muscular pain from infection [n -TISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myositis

myoprecursors
myops
myopses
myopy
myosarcoma
myoscope
myoscopes
myoseki
myoses
myoseverin
myosin
myosins
myosis
myositic
myositides
myositis (current term)
myositis trichinosa
myositises
myosote
myosotes
myosotis
myosotises
myostatin
myotactic reflex
myotasis
myotatic
myotherapies
myotherapist
myotherapists
myotherapy

Literary usage of Myositis

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)
"Definite myositis should also be ruled out. In pleurodynia the condition must ... The term myositis is applied to any inflammation of a voluntary muscle or ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"Under this head would be classed myositis secondary to suppuration in bone, gland, ... Purulent myositis from distant pyogenic focus may occur in this way. ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1912)
"Л primary myositis occurs as an acute, subacute, or chronic affection. ... myositis, known also as infectious myositis, is especially frequent in Japan, ..."

4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"Infections in these areas are commonly present in patients suffering from myositis. Localized myositis occurs often during certain epidemics of tonsillitis ..."

5. Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance by Richard Joseph Behan (1914)
"Other parasites are described. myositis Haemorrhagica.—In myositis ... myositis Fibrosa.—myositis fibrosa often shows itself in sharp pains in the muscles, ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"DISEASES OF THE MUSCLES myositis. Among the diseases in which muscle pains are severe ... In the former the myositis is multiple and there is more or less ..."

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