the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Inflammation of the muscles.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In pathology, inflammation of a muscle; myitis.
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n. inflammation of muscle tissue
Word Usage
"Neurologists, discovering that in a whole host of diseases—MS, myasthenia gravis, myositis, Guillain-Barré syndrome—the body was destroying parts of its neuromuscular system, became designated specialists in those diseases."