
Osteomyelitis of the Spine – An Overview
Everything you need to know is right in the name. Osteo- is the medical word (prefix in this case) which refers to the bone. Myel refers to the spinal cord or anything to do with the spine whilst it is commonly referred to inflammation (for instance bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi). If we put this together we get BONE spine inflammation of inflammation of the boney part of the




