English Explanatory Dictionary

Tietze syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A benign inflammation of one or more costal cartilages, differentiated from costochondritis by swelling of the costal cartilages.

Word forms

Tietze syndrome

Etymology

First described in 1921 by the German surgeon Alexander Tietze (1864–1927).

Synonyms

chondropathia tuberosa costochondral junction syndrome
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