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arthritises

arthritises 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...

Questions about arthritises

What is arthritises the plural of?
Arthritises is the plural of arthritis.

Words near arthritises in the dictionary

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

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