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rheumatoid arthritis

rheumatoid arthritis noun: a chronic and progressive disease in which the immune system attacks the joints. It is characterised by pain, inflammation and swelling of the joints, stiffness, weakness, loss of mobility and deformity. Tissues throughout the body can be affected, including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles.

Noun

rheumatoid arthritis (usually uncountable, plural rheumatoid arthritides)

  1. (usually) A chronic and progressive disease in which the immune system attacks the joints. It is characterised by pain, inflammation and swelling of the joints, stiffness, weakness, loss of mobility and deformity. Tissues throughout the body can be affected, including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles.
    • Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States....2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD
    Synonyms:
    atrophic arthritis, rheumarthritis

rheumatoid arthritis meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic

rheumatoid arthritis in Tamil

முடக்கு வாதம்

rheumatoid arthritis in Urdu

وجاالمفاصل

rheumatoid arthritis in Malayalam

ആമവാതം

rheumatoid arthritis in Arabic

chronic and progressive disease
الدَّاء الرَثَيَانِيّ ad-dāʔ ar-raṯayāniyy, اِلْتِهَاب المَفَاصِل الرُّومَاتُويِدِيّ iltihāb al-mafāṣil ar-rūmātūyidiyy
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rheumatoid arthritis in Vietnamese
viêm khớp dạng thấp

Synonyms of rheumatoid arthritis

Forms of rheumatoid arthritis

pluralrheumatoid arthritides

Words formed from rheumatoid arthritis

Questions about rheumatoid arthritis

What does rheumatoid arthritis mean?
Rheumatoid arthritis means a chronic and progressive disease in which the immune system attacks the joints. It is characterised by pain, inflammation and swelling of the joints, stiffness, weakness, loss of mobility and deformity. Tissues throughout the body can be affected, including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles.
What is rheumatoid arthritis in Tamil?
Rheumatoid arthritis in Tamil is முடக்கு வாதம். See Rheumatoid arthritis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rheumatoid arthritis?
Rheumatoid arthritis is a noun.
What is the plural of rheumatoid arthritis?
The plural of rheumatoid arthritis is rheumatoid arthritides.

Words near rheumatoid arthritis in the dictionary

  1. rheumatizes
  2. rheumatogenic
  3. rheumatogenicity
  4. rheumatoid
  5. rheumatoid arthritides
  6. rheumatoid arthritis
  7. rheumatoid factor
  8. rheumatoid factors
  9. rheumatoid pneumoconiosis
  10. rheumatoidal
  11. rheumatoidally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rheumatoid arthritis (page history and authors); rheumatoid arthritis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rheumatoid arthritis (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rheumatoid arthritis (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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