Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of the hip joint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, inflammation of the hip-joint. Also
coxarthritis .
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- noun pathology
Inflammation of thehip joint .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[cox(a) + –itis.]
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Latin coxa + -itis.
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Examples
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X-rays show the deformity of the head and clear areas in the interior of the upper epiphysis corresponding to the islands of cartilage; these clear areas resemble those due to caseous foci in tuberculous coxitis.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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