bakterite tekitatud luuüdipõletik, mis hematogeenselt tekkides algab luuüdist ja võib levida teistesse luu osadesse ning sellest väljapoole, an inflammation of bone that is caused by a pathogenic organism, such as staphylococci, and that involves all elements of bone from the periosteum to the marrow, an infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone often of bacterial origin that may result in the death of bone tissue