fibromyalgia
English edit
Etymology edit
From fibro- (“tissue”) + my- (“muscle”) + -algia (“pain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fibromyalgia (countable and uncountable, plural fibromyalgias)
- (medicine, pathology) A condition characterised by chronic pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints.
- 2016 November 26, Jessica Hamzelou, “Hitting where it hurts”, in New Scientist[1], number 3101, page 36:
- They have since used the approach to look at the brains of people with fibromyalgia, a mysterious syndrome that causes pain all over the body. Volunteers with fibromyalgia also had more active glial cells in their brains, although this time in the cerebellar cortex and the medulla – regions that are linked to movement and automatic functions like breathing and digestion.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
condition characterised by chronic pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism (see English fibromyalgia).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈfibromyɑlɡiɑ/, [ˈfibro̞myˌɑ̝lɡiɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑlɡiɑ
- Syllabification(key): fib‧ro‧my‧al‧gi‧a
Noun edit
fibromyalgia
Declension edit
Inflection of fibromyalgia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | fibromyalgia | fibromyalgiat | ||
genitive | fibromyalgian | fibromyalgioiden fibromyalgioitten | ||
partitive | fibromyalgiaa | fibromyalgioita | ||
illative | fibromyalgiaan | fibromyalgioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | fibromyalgia | fibromyalgiat | ||
accusative | nom. | fibromyalgia | fibromyalgiat | |
gen. | fibromyalgian | |||
genitive | fibromyalgian | fibromyalgioiden fibromyalgioitten fibromyalgiainrare | ||
partitive | fibromyalgiaa | fibromyalgioita | ||
inessive | fibromyalgiassa | fibromyalgioissa | ||
elative | fibromyalgiasta | fibromyalgioista | ||
illative | fibromyalgiaan | fibromyalgioihin | ||
adessive | fibromyalgialla | fibromyalgioilla | ||
ablative | fibromyalgialta | fibromyalgioilta | ||
allative | fibromyalgialle | fibromyalgioille | ||
essive | fibromyalgiana | fibromyalgioina | ||
translative | fibromyalgiaksi | fibromyalgioiksi | ||
abessive | fibromyalgiatta | fibromyalgioitta | ||
instructive | — | fibromyalgioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “fibromyalgia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02