Chondritis????

Anyone ever had or heard of chondritis? Just been diagnosed with it thats all and i'd never heard of it before

smithy x

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inflammation of cartilage.......

Hi smithy,

Chondritis is inflammation of cartilage; This can more clearly be seen by splitting the word down into it's two parts:

'chondr'- meaning affecting cartilage

'-itis' - inflammation.

the '-itis' bit is almost like the old Maureen Lipman BT advert of years ago (am really showing my age now...) where she's talking - 'At least he's got an '-ology'! - the suffix means roughly the same thing whatever it follows....

In your case, I'm guessing it probably means costo-chondritis [inflammation of the cartilage of the ribs where the meet the sternum (breastbone)] which causes chest pain, both on breathing, but also with local tenderness on directly pressing the chest either side of the sternum.

But to give other examples of 'itis' - thinking about other things that get inflammed - appendix (appendicitis), conjunctiva in the eye (conjunctivitis), bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchi)

Hope that helps

KSD