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osteoarthritides

osteoarthritides is the plural of osteoarthritis.

Meaning of osteoarthritis

Noun

osteoarthritis (countable and uncountable, plural osteoarthritides or osteoarthritises)

  1. A form of arthritis, affecting mainly older people, caused by chronic degeneration of the cartilage and synovial membrane of the joints, leading to pain and stiffness.
    • For example, among the papers directed at arthropathies, all the population studies in the bibliometric survey relied on macroscopy alone[…]. These were principally studies of osteoarthritis[…], for which there are standard diagnostic protocols based on macroscopic changes[…].2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 23
    Synonyms:
    degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint disease, DJD

Questions about osteoarthritides

What is osteoarthritides the plural of?
Osteoarthritides is the plural of osteoarthritis.

Words near osteoarthritides in the dictionary

  1. osteoarthralgia
  2. osteoarthrectomies
  3. osteoarthrectomy
  4. osteoarthritic
  5. osteoarthritics
  6. osteoarthritides
  7. osteoarthritis
  8. osteoarthritises
  9. osteoarthropathies
  10. osteoarthropathy
  11. osteoarthroses

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