Arthritis

//ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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: any of several disease entities. countable, uncountable

    "The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;"

  2. 2
    inflammation of a joint or joints wordnet

Synonyms

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adenoiditisadrenitisappendicitisarteritisarthritis deformansarthritis fungosa

Example

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"Arthritis is a painful condition that affects the joints."

Etymology

From Latin arthrītis, from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτις (arthrîtis, “joint-disease, gout”), from ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”). By surface analysis, arthr- + -itis.

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Reiter's arthritiscrystalline arthritisgouty arthritisrheumatoid arthritis

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