What is "rheumatoid"

Usage examples of "rheumatoid".

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.

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.

As he stood up, his knees afflicted with a strange, rheumatoid stiffness, he knew this replay was going to end early, far short of the LZ.

There were no cases where gallstones or rheumatoid arthritis, say, were cured, much less cancer or cardiovascular disease.

Weak heart, coronary thrombosis, high blood pressure, chronic bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis all the rest of it.

The second most impressive dealt with the number of deaths of people with the same symptoms associated with various chronic disease like diabetes, cancer, kidney problems, rheumatoid arthritis, and liver ailments.

He slithered sideways off the bed and crawled towards Mrs Forthby like a crab with rheumatoid arthritis.

Murphy was found to have anti-DNA antibodies, increased gamma globulin, and antibodies against thyroid, as well as antibodies found in rheumatoid arthritis.

We have two poor women living here with very bad rheumatoid arthritis.

His own assailant was cursing him and pushing up now from the sand, and as Joe spun around to deal with the threat, he was full of the meanness and fury that had gotten him thrown out of the youth-boxing league twenty years ago, seething with church-vandalizing rage - he was an animal now, a heartless predator, cat-quick and savage - and he reacted as though this stranger were personally responsible for poor Frank being crippled with rheumatoid arthritis, as if this sonofabitch had worked some hoodoo to make Frank's joints swell and deform, as if this wretched thug were the sole perpetrator who had somehow put a funnel in Captain Blane's ear and poured an elixir of madness into his head, so Joe kicked him in the crotch, and when the guy grunted and began to double over, Joe grabbed the bastard's head and at the same time drove a knee upward, shoving the face down into the knee and jamming the knee up hard into the face, a .

ACTH: a hormone that was sometimes used to combat symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

The old man's rheumatoid arthritis explained some of that, but for the last six weeks Ravi had been forced to keep his patient practically isolated from Tennant.

The American physician Philip Showalter Hench, working in Kendall's group, tried it on patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

I wouldn't think you'd put someone with severe rheumatoid arthritis in the attic bedroom.

Another disease the doctors find hard to treat, and with which I have had quite a lot of success, is rheumatoid arthritis, whose effects can be agonizing.