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arthritides

arthritides is the plural of arthritis.

Meaning of arthritis

Noun

arthritis (countable and uncountable, plural arthritides or arthritises)

  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.
    • The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;1878, L[éon Athanese] Gosselin, “I. Hyperostosis of Right Femur. II. Necrosis of Left Tibia.”, in Lewis A. Stimson, transl., Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at the Hospital of La Charité...

Phrases with arthritides

Questions about arthritides

What is arthritides the plural of?
Arthritides is the plural of arthritis.

Words near arthritides in the dictionary

  1. arthritically
  2. arthriticin
  3. arthriticine
  4. arthriticky
  5. arthritics
  6. arthritides
  7. arthritis
  8. arthritises
  9. arthritislike
  10. arthritism
  11. arthritogenesis

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