Osteitis is inflammation of bone. More specifically, it can refer to one of the following conditions:

• Osteomyelitis, or infectious osteitis, mainly bacterial osteitis

• Alveolar osteitis or "dry socket"

• Condensing osteitis (or Osteitis condensans)

• Osteitis deformans (or Paget's disease of bone)

• Osteitis fibrosa cystica (or Osteitis fibrosa, or Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone)

• Osteitis pubis

Radiation osteitis

• Osteitis condensans ilii

• Panosteitis, a long bone condition in large breed dogs

• In horses, pedal osteitis is frequently confused with laminitis.

See also

• Osteochondritis

• SAPHO syndrome

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