Tendonitis or Tendinitis

Any help and documentation would be great. I have looked it up in Stedman's and it says that tendinitis is the pleural form of tendonitis. Can someone help me understand when to use which one or is one correct all of the time?

Thanks

I can't document where you can find when to use one or the other...I just remember back in MT school (a few moons ago) my teacher telling us that "tendinitis" is the preferred spelling although either would be okay. Sorry I can't help out with documenting this, though.

And thanks for the Filipino response...I guess your hubby should know, right??

Willi

I would type tendinitis; it is the correct spelling for tendonitis per Dorland's Medical Dictionary.

Anyways ---- Vera Pyle has

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tendinitis -- not tendonitis

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Tendinitis is preferred.
But tendonitis has become accepted.

I always have to laugh a little bit about this word because I am sure that it has been misspelled so often ("tendonitis" instead of "tendinitis") that everyone is just giving up ----- and letting "tendonitis" have its way.

This is the way the English language changes.
If enough people use a word for a long enough period of time ---it generally finally becomes acceptable.

And -- there have been many many posts about this word on this board before.....

[ 07-12-2001: Message edited by: AnnR ]