TENDONITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tendonitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of a tendon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENDONITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of a tendon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

tendinitis; tendonitis; tenonitis

Hypernyms ("tendonitis" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tendonitis"):

lateral epicondylitis; lateral humeral epicondylitis; tennis elbow (painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand))

tendonous synovitis; tendosynovitis; tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath)

 Context examples 

In rheumatoid arthritis this term usually refers to tendonitis or inflammation of the heart or lung.

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