Definitions for synovitis

synovitis syn·o·vi·tis

Spelling: [sin-uh-vahy-tis]
IPA: /ˌsɪn əˈvaɪ tɪs/

Synovitis is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in synovitis (iinosstvy).

Definitions for synovitis

noun

  1. inflammation of a synovial membrane.

Origin of synovitis

First recorded in 1825-35; synov(ia) + -itis

Examples for synovitis

We may, in fact, and do get in it exactly similar changes to those termed 'synovitis' and 'arthritis' elsewhere.

The symptoms of synovitis include stiffness and tenderness in the joint.

We may, in fact, explain them by suggesting either a chronic synovitis alone, or a synovitis complicated with periostitis.

In this condition we have synovitis complicated by the presence of pus.

And “synovitis” has a fiercely medical sound, harsh and precise, and provides a very specific anatomic explanation.

Acute arthritis begins like an ordinary attack of synovitis.

Such symptoms, therefore, as we have given for synovitis may be also read as indicating a condition of simple arthritis.

It depends, in fact, upon the severity of our case whether we call it synovitis or arthritis.

There is often a good deal of heat of the surrounding skin and of pain accompanying the synovitis.

The result is that a condition of synovitis is easily set up, and the case aggravated by that and by arthritis.

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