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osteo

osteo noun: osteomyelitis.

Noun

osteo (uncountable)

  1. (informal) osteomyelitis
    • The blunting could be caused by endocarditis, an infection of the heart lining occasionally associated with a staph infection which has developed into osteomyelitis. Perhaps her intuition was right. But if Richard had osteo, special treatment was long overdue.1965, The Reader's Digest, volume 86, page 148
    • But my osteo plagued me throughout the rest of my stay at the HNOH, and for several years even after leaving the Home. It wasn't until the discovery of penicillin and the sulfa drugs that I finally beat that condition.2000, Sam George Arcus, Deja Views of an Aging Orphan: Growing up in the Hebrew National Orphan Home

osteo meaning in Tamil

osteo in Tamil

எலும்பின், எலும்பில், எலும்புக்குறிய

Origin of osteo

Shortening.

Questions about osteo

What does osteo mean?
Osteo means osteomyelitis.
What is osteo in Tamil?
Osteo in Tamil is எலும்பின், எலும்பில், எலும்புக்குறிய. See Osteo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is osteo?
Osteo is a noun.

Words near osteo in the dictionary

  1. ostenting
  2. ostentious
  3. ostentive
  4. ostentous
  5. ostents
  6. osteo
  7. osteo-
  8. osteo-malacia
  9. osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
  10. osteoabsorptiometric
  11. osteoabsorptiometry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osteo (page history and authors); osteo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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