myelitis

From myelo- +‎ -itis. From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”) + -ῖτις (-îtis, “fire”).

myelitis (countable and uncountable, plural myelites or myelitides)

1. Inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.

• myelopathy

• “myelitis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “myelitis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.