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arthritis
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Word definitions for arthritis in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES AIDS/cancer/asthma/arthritis etc sufferers ▪ a support group for cancer sufferers rheumatoid arthritis COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE rheumatoid ▪ Gold salts are highly effective in the management of patients with ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arthritis \Ar*thri"tis\ ([aum]r*thr[imac]"t[i^]s), n. [L., fr. Gr. 'arqri^tis (as if fem. of 'arqri`tis belonging to the joints, sc. no`sos disease) gout, fr. 'a`rqron a joint.] (Med.) Any inflammation of the joints, including the gout. A ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inflammation of a joint or joints
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inflammation of a joint," 1540s, from medical Latin arthritis , from Greek (nosos) arthritis "(disease) of the joints," from arthritis , fem. of arthrites (adj.) "pertaining to joints" (Greek nosos is a fem. noun), from arthron "a joint" (see arm (n.1)). ...
Usage examples of arthritis.
Rheumatoid and some other forms of arthritis are not diseases associated with aging, but rather autoimmune disorders, in which antibodies attack your cartilage, which is what triggers that inflammation and joint pain.
Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and various forms of arthritis may occur or reoccur in response to viral activation due to stress.
Gaudet hobbled into the bed-and-breakfast establishment, appearing bent by arthritis or scoliosis of the spine, his face designed to look time-worn and yet nondescript.
Oh, hell, there she went with that finger, like the finger of God, only knobby and swole up with arthritis.
More properly known as gelatin hydrolysate, it is also used in shampoos and conditioners, lipsticks, protein drinks, arthritis relief formulas and many other products that Joe will never touch the rest of his life.
Frock is referring to diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, a type of severe degenerative arthritis.
Her case sounded as if she had a form of hypercalcemia, which was manifested by any number of diseases ranging from rickets and steomalacia to chronic hypertrophic arthritis.
Otherwise, firing on a Mountie puts them away until arthritis sets in.
I remembered that Dan suffered from arthritis so I took a small packet of phenylbutazone tablets from my supplies and went up the steps into his cluttered store.
His storkish looks, although twisted with age and arthritis, reminded her of someone she had known in Shaurone, but she had not yet given it enough thought to be certain.
I was eighteen, Strothers had arthritis so badly that walking was painful.
In worst cases, that can lead to organ failure, but it can also lead to other autoimmune diseases such as lupus, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Marta, her arthritis under temporary medical control, smiled broadly and poured a thimbleful of Barolo into a stemmed glass.
Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.
Of course among the rheumatic patients were many who had gonorrhoeal arthritis, and Doc dosed them with quinine, for which some of them formed a genuine liking.