α. 1600s–1700s antiarthritick, 1700s– antiarthritic.
β. 1700s antarthritick, 1700s– antarthritic.
antiarthriticn.adj.
/ˌantɪɑːˈθrɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˌæn(t)iˌɑrˈθrɪdɪk/ Medicine.
A. n.
A medicinal agent used to treat arthritis (in early use spec. gout). Cf. earlier arthritic n. 2, arthritical n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for arthritis, rheumatism, or gout
arthritical1654
arthritic1663
antiarthritic1692
antipodagric1853
1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica i. xix. 142/2 One of the most absolute Antissorbuticks, Antiphthisictiks, Antispasmadicks, Antiarthriticks, Antepilepticks, and Antinephriticks, yet to this day discovered.
1728 P. Shaw New Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. 401 Where the condition is gross, and the juices are viscid, a course of chalybeates, join'd with anti-arthritics, are exceeding proper.
1764 D. MacBride Exper. Ess. v. 245 If this be the real condition of the fluids in gouty constitutions, lime-water, or the caustic alcali, would promise fair to be excellent antarthritics.
1841 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 12 432 Antarthritics, narcotics, antispasmodics, calomel to the extent of producing salivation, bark, and sea-bathing had no effect.
1861 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. II. 853 Some practitioners regarded gout as its primary cause, and in addition to depletion employed colchicum, or other anti-arthritics.
1913 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. 73 107 It is in these cases that bryonia is often overlooked in favor of the supposedly greater antarthritics of the alkaline class.
1994 Consumer's Guide Arthritis Medications (Arthritis Soc. Canada) 7/1 NSAIDs are very effective anti-arthritics but they can cause ulcers.
2002 L. L. Duetsch in L. L. Duetsch Industry Stud. (ed. 3) iv. 112/1 When Syntex patents expired in December 1993 on antiarthritics (Naprosyn and Anaprox) with combined sales of $700 million that year, two-thirds of all new prescriptions were filled by generics within a month.
B. adj.
Used to treat arthritis (in early use spec. gout); of or relating to the treatment of arthritis. Cf. earlier arthritic adj. 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [adjective] > for arthritis, rheumatism, or gout
arthritic1659
antipodagrical1676
antiarthritic1697
antipodagric1712
1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. vi. 335 I prescribed Medicines for him, for sharpness of Urine, Stone and Gravil; as well as Antiarthritick Remedies, for he seldom had a Fit of the Gout, without that of the Stone also.
1717 New Syst. Gout & Rheumatism x. 35 (heading) Some few more Particulars of this Anti-Arthritick Tincture, with an Account where it is to be had.
1731 Second High-German Physician 45 I will, by Remittance, supply him with an Anti-arthritic Globe.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 73 The root is supposed by the Hindoos to possess..antarthritic virtues.
1838 Lancet 12 May 232/1 The object of the author was to show that the coronopodium of the ancients,—the celebrated anti-arthritic remedy of Alexander and Paulus Ægineta, was a true species of hellebore.
1912 Druggists Circular 56 134/2 The seeds and bulbs [of the meadow saffron], or corms , as they are called, are used medicinally, principally for their antarthritic properties.
1975 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 10 Apr. 11/4 Anti-arthritic drugs such as phenylbutazone, hydrocortisone and dexamethasone.
2000 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (rev. ed.) iv. 158 Both compounds possessed anti-arthritic activity that was four to five times more potent than that exhibited by either of the parent structures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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