# Tietze syndrome

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A benign inflammation of one or more costal cartilages, differentiated from costochondritis by swelling of the costal cartilages.

## Etymology
First described in 1921 by the German surgeon Alexander Tietze (1864–1927).

## Source
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