MYELITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myelitis mean? 

• MYELITIS (noun)
  The noun MYELITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the spinal cord

  Familiarity information: MYELITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYELITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("myelitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

 Context examples 

An autoimmune inflammatory syndrome characterized by optic neuritis and myelitis.

(Neuromyelitis Optica, NCI Thesaurus)

Human herpesvirus 5 is found in humans and causes mononucleosis-like symptoms in healthy individuals and pneumonia, hepatitis, encephalitis, myelitis, colitis, retinitis, neuropathy, mucoepidermoid carcinoma as well as other malignancies in immunocompromised persons, organ transplant recipients and newborn infants.

(Human Herpesvirus 5, NCI Thesaurus)

A new study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, and infection with non-polio enteroviruses.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)