arthritis
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.
Related words
- acroarthritis
- antiarthritis
- arthritislike
- arthritism
- dermatoarthritis
- monarthritis
- monoarthritis
- oligoarthritis
- panarthritis
- pauciarthritis
- periarthritis
- spondylarthritis
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