Tenosynovitis

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (the synovium) that surrounds a tendon. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
tendonous synovitistendosynovitistendovaginitis

Etymology

From tenosynovium + -itis or teno- + synovitis.

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