What is "arthritic"

Usage examples of "arthritic".

Alex followed the arthritic old man down the short corridor and through a narrow door into a small office that was a miniature extension of the expensive outer design.

Of an arthritic little islander, whose French and African blood had strained its way into the Jamaican aristocracy and MI5 by way of Eton and Oxford.

Stuart evened the honours by ushering Mrs Murphy - arthritic knee, prone to leg ulcers, Kate mentally annotated - through first.

Ayla handed him the unusual pouch, noticing the arthritic bumps in his long, thin, old hands.

She wondered, though, how the normally stiff and arthritic old man could move with such ease.

Ayla studied the wrinkled face, which had become blank and unexpressive, and the white-knuckled arthritic old hands.

In each I could hear the arthritic creaking of the attic rafters as the wind pushed at the gables and pounded on the roof and pried at the eaves.

The only things that pegged him as an aged retiree were his work-gnarled, leathery, slightly arthritic, somehow ancient hands .

She loved her hometown the way one loves a loyal family pet during its arthritic, bad-smelling final years.

Only the arthritic swelling and distortion of his finger joints gave any hint of disability or special challenge.

We followed him slowly, Karol, and the wooden stairs, both creaky and arthritic.

Once or twice she passed her arthritic fingers across her eyes and brow almost as if she tried to exorcise some devil of muddlement within.

Willow on his back snoring softly, Longtusk, with stiff arthritic limbs, picked his cautious way down off the nunatak rocks.

When they put the book down, Grania begins to teach Mamo the hand alphabet--which the old arthritic hands delight in learning.

Practically crawling, I manage to get out the front door as fast as my arthritic knees let me.