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n. - Inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration.

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  • An orthopedic doctor diagnosed the injury as osteitis pubis, an inflamed pubic bone, and sent him for a bone scan that involved him taking radioactive isotopes.
  • Most recently, an orthopedic doctor diagnosed the injury as osteitis pubis, an inflamed pubic bone and sent him for a bone scan that involved him taking radioactive...
  • Before there is evidence of an exostosis, diagnosis of ringbone is not easy, for it is then a problem of detecting the presence of a ligamentous sprain, periostitis, or...
  • SG: Mine is that osteitis pubis becomes the new plantiar fascitis.
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