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Arthritis  n.  (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 called arthritis deformans and arthritis nodosa) are chronic and progressive, and lead to incapacitation and deformity.






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"Arthritis" Quotes from Famous Books



... little one. I begin to feel my knee preparing to make ready for the reception of the Lady Arthritis. God ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

... and all subsequent diseases—are they not perhaps the capital element of progress? Arthritis, for example, infects the blood and introduces into it scoriae, a kind of refuse, of an imperfect organic combustion; but may not this very impurity happen to make the blood more stimulative? May not this impure blood promote a more active cerebration precisely because ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

... remember his dad talking about the breadlines and the free-soup kitchens. He could remember his grandmother, her hands crippled by arthritis, aggravated by long hours at a commercial sewing machine in a clothing center sweat-shop, just so she could bring in that little extra money that meant so much to her children and her ...
— Damned If You Don't • Gordon Randall Garrett



Words linked to "Arthritis" :   urarthritis, arthritic, rheumatism, degenerative arthritis, inflammatory disease, psoriatic arthritis, atrophic arthritis, gout, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis, spondylarthritis, Lyme arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative joint disease



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