Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of a joint, usually accompanied by pain, swelling, and stiffness, resulting from infection, trauma, degenerative changes, metabolic disturbances, or other causes. It occurs in various forms, such as bacterial arthritis, osteoarthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of a joint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Any inflammation of the joints, including the gout. A variety of forms of arthritis are recognized, some of which (such as
rheumatoid arthritis , also calledarthritis deformans andarthritis nodosa ) are chronic and progressive, and lead to incapacitation and deformity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Inflammation of ajoint or joints causingpain and/ordisability , swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such asinfection ,trauma , degenerative changes ormetabolic disorders.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inflammation of a joint or joints
Etymologies
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Examples
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_Rheumatic arthritis_, if one is justified in classifying rheumatic inflammation of joints as a metastatic form of arthritis, is not a common condition, though seen in mature and aged animals.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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_Metastatic arthritis_ is seen more frequently in colts or young animals than in mature horses and we here take the liberty of classifying with the arthritis of omphalophlebitis and strangles the so-called rheumatic variety.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The commoner types include the _synovitis_ associated with disease in the adjacent bone, _acute arthritis of infants_, joint suppuration in _pyæmia_, _pyogenic arthritis_ following upon penetrating wounds, and the affections which result from _gonorrhœal_ or _pneumococcal_ infection.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning "joint" and the Latin itis meaning
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