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UK
/ɹˈuːmɐtˌɔɪd/
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[ US /ˈɹuməˌtɔɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɹuməˌtɔɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or pertaining to arthritis
rheumy with age and grief
my creaky old joints
How To Use rheumatoid In A Sentence
- The new findings also may be important to people with systemic autoimmune disorders such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
- It can occur by itself or with other, common autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
- Early in rheumatoid arthritis, joints in your wrists, hands, feet and knees are the ones most often affected.
- This is probably what happens in rheumatoid arthritis, for instance. The Antioxidant Health Plan
- The old kind -- filled with silicone gel -- were linked to debilitating health problems, so-called connective-tissue diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Health: New Year, New Breasts?
- Conditions such as an uncorrected fracture of the shin bone, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis or Paget's disease can distort the ends of the bones and cause knock knee in adults.
- MF, Joosten LA, Abdollahi-Roodsaz S, van Lieshout AW, Sprong T, et al. (2005) The expression of toll-like receptors 3 and 7 in rheumatoid arthritis synovium is increased and costimulation of toll-like receptors 3, 4, and 7/8 results in synergistic cytokine production by dendritic cells. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- That which medicine can't explain we tend to label psychosomatic and blame the patient, a cruel phenomenon all too familiar to those who've had MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, and a myriad of other ailments in decades past. John Falk: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Psychotherapy
- In 1989, Tao administered an extract of the TCM antiarthritis herb T-2 Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F to 70 patients with rheumatoid arthritis of at least six months ’ duration which had not responded to standard treatment. The Best Alternative Medicine
- The cervical spine in rheumatoid arthritis Needs careful assessment Rheumatoid arthritis commonly affects the cervical spine, causing several well defined deformities.