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- noun Inflammation of the periosteum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the periosteum.
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- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the periosteum.
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- noun Inflammation of a
periosteum .
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Examples
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He got up again, furious, showed me his ear and his swollen cheek, and I caught the word "periostitis" in the explanation he gave me on shutting the window again and threatening me.
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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That an osteoplastic periostitis has been in existence is witnessed by the appearance along the edges of the bone of numerous outgrowths of bone, termed osteophytes (see Fig. 163).
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The results of an osteoplastic periostitis are frequently met with in the bones of the foot, and are described by veterinary writers under such headings as 'Pedal Exostoses,' 'Ossifying Ostitis,' and 'Pedal
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The periostitis thus set up invariably takes the osteoplastic form, and as a result of this we have growths of new bone in the near neighbourhood of the joint.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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-- In simple cases of periostitis, those caused by a blow but free from an actual wound, the most beneficial treatment is the continued application of cold by means of a hose-pipe or by swabs.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Simple acute periostitis may and often does end in resolution.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The exudate, however, is, as it were, shut in by the dense fibrous layer of the membrane, and the result is that in periostitis it collects between the membrane and the bone, causing swelling and raising of the membrane, and giving rise to excruciating pain from pressure upon the nerves.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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We get, therefore, in many cases, a condition of rarefactive ostitis occurring side by side with a slowly progressive caries within the bone, while outside is occurring an osteoplastic periostitis.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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When the periostitis and ostitis is the result of a wound, and is complicated by caries or necrosis of the bone, the diseased portion of bone must in every case be laid bare and removed.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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We may, in fact, explain them by suggesting either a chronic synovitis alone, or a synovitis complicated with periostitis.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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