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UK
/spˌɒndɪlˈaɪtɪs/
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NOUN
- inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness
How To Use spondylitis In A Sentence
- Ankylosing spondylitis patients have some familial aggregation of disease is a certain degree of genetic tendency.
- Patients with ankylosing spondylitis rarely if ever develop ventilatory failure without superimposed lung disease.
- Physically, they have been put under chronic stress, causing spondylitis, back pain, insomnia, and other psychosomatic illnesses.
- Johnny is said to claim £94.25 a week for a serious back problem known as spondylitis, an inflammation of the vertebrae that is linked to arthritis. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Myankylosing spondylitis has been pretty bad for the past few days – for the first time in ages. Each gate will open another* « Sarahndipitea
- He said: ‘Doctors have said I've got arthritis and think I've got spondylitis.’
- Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes pain and inflammation of the joints between the spinal vertebrae and the joints between the spine and pelvis. EU Backs Astra's Arthritis Pill
- A similar but less marked type of kyphosis may follow upon compression fracture of the spine -- in the condition known as traumatic spondylitis; and as a result of other lesions, such as osteomalacia, or malignant disease, in which the bodies undergo softening and yield, so that the spinous processes project posteriorly. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- She had crippling spondylitis and could barely move.
- Richmond and Marx take inspiration from the story of Norman Cousins, whose 1979 book Anatomy of an Illness recounts how the Saturday Review editor -- given a one in 500 chance of surviving ankylosing spondylitis -- quite literally laughed his way back to health. Michael Sigman: Hello, the Marx Brothers Must Be Coming