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Definition of Periostitis
1. n. Inflammation of the periosteum.
Definition of Periostitis
1. Noun. Inflammation of a periosteum. ¹
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Definition of Periostitis
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Medical Definition of Periostitis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Periostitis
Literary usage of Periostitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"periostitis, per-i'os-ti'tlz, inflammation of the membrane encasing a living
bone, or the periosteum (qv), a painful ailment frequently developed by sudden ..."
2. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"Chronic periostitis is always accompanied sooner or later by the formation of
new boo« ... In those cases of periostitis which are of syphilitic character, ..."
3. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"Chronic periostitis and ostitis are very common affections, more particularly
... The ostitis is probably the more common of the two, pure periostitis, ..."
4. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"Chronic periostitis may last for months, and in any type fistulas, necrosis, ...
periostitis due to syphilis presents the most favorable prognosis. ..."
5. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"periostitis that has lasted some time will never leave the bone unaffected.
Let us first consider the symptoms of chronic periostitis. ..."
6. The Principles and practice of surgery by Frank Hastings Hamilton (1872)
"There is, however, one form of acute periostitis nearly allied to traumatic ...
The direct or exciting causes of acute diffuse periostitis have generally ..."
7. The Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by Henry Ashby, George Arthur Wright, William Perry Northrup, T. Halsted Myers (1893)
"If this form of periostitis is, however, neglected, the deeper layer may slough,
or the mischief spread through it, and more extensive necrosis may ensue. ..."
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