Osteitis
/ˌɒstiˈaɪtɪs/noun
Inflammation of bone tissue.
Did you know?The suffix “-itis,” now associated with inflammation, comes from Ancient Greek and originally formed medical terms meaning “disease or inflammation of.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₂ósth₁
“Bone”
Ancient Greek
Greek
ὀστέον (ostéon)
“Bone”
Ancient Greek
Greek
-ῖτις (-îtis)
“Pertaining to a disease or inflammation”
19th Century
New Latin
osteitis
“Inflammation of bone”
19th Century–Present
English
osteitis
“Inflammation of bone tissue”