arthritis
/ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/US/ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/
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arthritis noun: 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.
Noun
arthritis (countable and uncountable, plural arthritides or arthritises)
- 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...
- She identified the dry grasp and the finger joints (both the Simpsons were dry-handed, and in the early stages of arthritis, so Dr Simpson had diagnosed).2012, Patrick White, The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories, →ISBN
arthritis meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
arthritis in Hindi
- inflammation of a joint
- गठिया gaṭhiyā, संधि शोथ sandhi śoth
arthritis in Tamil
- inflammation of a joint
- மூட்டழற்சி mūṭṭaḻaṟci
arthritis in Marathi
- संधिवात, संधिवाताचा त्रास, आर्थरायटिस
arthritis in Urdu
- گانٹھی کی بیماری, گٹھیا
More languagesFewer languages
- arthritis in Bengali
- বাত bat
- arthritis in Telugu
- ఆర్థరైటిస్
- arthritis in Malayalam
- സന്ധിവാതം sandhivātaṁ
- arthritis in Kannada
- ಕೀಲೂತ, ಸಂಧಿವಾತ, ವಾತರೋಗ, ಕೀಲುನೋವು
- arthritis in Punjabi
- ਗਠੀਆ gaṭhīā
- arthritis in Gujarati
- સંધિવા sandhivā
- arthritis in Odia
- ଆର୍ଥ୍ରାଇଟିସ୍, ଆର୍ଥ୍ରାଇଟିସ
- arthritis in Assamese
- বাতবিষ batobix
- arthritis in Nepali
- बाथ bāth
- arthritis in Tagalog
- magansugpong
- arthritis in Arabic
- اِلْتِهَاب الْمَفَاصِل iltihāb al-mafāṣil
- arthritis in Malay
- radang sendi, artritis
- arthritis in Thai
- ข้ออักเสบ kɔ̂ɔ-àk-sèep
- arthritis in Vietnamese
- viêm khớp
- Dhivehi
- ހުޅުތައް ދުޅަވުން huḷuta duḷavun̊
Examples of arthritis in a sentence
- Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris is a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
- Because of her arthritis, she always asked not to have childproof caps on her medicine bottles.
- The doctor treated me for arthritis.
Forms of arthritis
| plural | arthritides |
|---|---|
| plural | arthritises |
Origin of arthritis
From Latin arthrītis, from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτις (arthrîtis, “joint-disease, gout”), from ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”). By surface analysis, arthr- + -itis.
Words formed from arthritis
- acroarthritis
- antiarthritis
- arthritic
- arthritically
- arthritislike
- arthritism
- crystalline arthritis
- dermatoarthritis
- gonarthritis
- gouty arthritis
- monarthritis
- monoarthritis
- oligoarthritis
- osteoarthritis
- panarthritis
- pauciarthritis
- periarthritis
- polyarthritis
- Reiter's arthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- spondylarthritis
- spondyloarthritis
- urarthritis
Questions about arthritis
- What does arthritis mean?
- Arthritis means 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.
- What is arthritis in Hindi?
- Arthritis in Hindi is गठिया (gaṭhiyā), संधि शोथ (sandhi śoth). See Arthritis meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is arthritis?
- Arthritis is a noun.
- How do you pronounce arthritis?
- Arthritis is pronounced /ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of arthritis?
- The plural of arthritis is arthritides.
Words near arthritis in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: arthritis (page history and authors); arthritis (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Arthritis (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); arthritis (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arthritis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); arthritis (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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