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I would think tendinitis is preferred

Posted By: sm on 2009-04-11
In Reply to: Since when is tendon spelled tendin? sm - Pugmom

Subject: I would think tendinitis is preferred

My Stedman's ortho book has main listing "tendinitis" with subentries under this spelling.  It also has "tendonitis" as a "variant of tendinitis" with no subentries.  As backup I checked Vera Pyle and the entry in the silver book is as follows:


tendinitis - not tendonitis (her italics)




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