myelitis

American

[mahy-uh-lahy-tis] / ˌmaɪ əˈlaɪ tɪs /

noun

Pathology.

inflammation of the substance of the spinal cord.
inflammation of the bone marrow.

myelitis British

/ ˌmaɪɪˈlaɪtɪs /

noun

inflammation of the spinal cord or of the bone marrow

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Etymology

Origin of myelitis

First recorded in 1825–35; myel- + -itis

Example Sentences

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“People say, ‘Well, yeah, you took people to the Cayman Islands, so that must have had a therapeutic effect,’ ” says Kaplin, the chief psychiatric consultant to Johns Hopkins’s Multiple Sclerosis and Transverse Myelitis Centers.

From Washington Post

Myelitis, mī-e-lī′tis, n. inflammation of the substance of the spinal cord.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Myelitis may be confined to a small spot in the cord or may involve the whole for a variable distance.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

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