Word Meanings - TENOSYNOVITIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

Related words: (words related to TENOSYNOVITIS)

• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• ENVELOPMENT
  1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
• SHEATHY
  Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.
• SHEATH-WINGED
  Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
• SHEATHFISH
  See SHEATFISH
• ENVELOPE; ENVELOP
  The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. (more info) 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
• ENVELOP
  To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips. (more info)
• INFLAMMATION
  A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
• SHEATHER
  One who sheathes.
• SHEATHE
  Etym: 1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast
• TENDONOUS
  Tendinous.
• SYNOVIAL
  Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia. Synovial capsule, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth
• SHEATHING
  from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
• SHEATHBILL
  Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Note: They are related to the gulls and the plovers, but more nearly to the latter. The base of the bill is covered
• SHEATH
  OS. skeedhia, D. scheede, G. scheide, OHG. sceida, Sw. skida, Dan. skede, Icel. skeiedhir, pl., and to E. shed, v.t., originally 1. A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• ACHILLES' TENDON
  The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
• MISSHEATHED
  Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.
• DISSHEATHE
  To become unsheathed. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SCHWANN'S SHEATH
  The neurilemma.