osteoarthritis
/ˌɒstɪəʊɑːˈθrʌɪtɪs
/noun [mass noun] Medicine
Degeneration of joint cartilage and the underlying bone, most common from middle age onward. It causes pain and stiffness, especially in the hip, knee, and thumb joints. Compare with rheumatoid arthritis.Both of these regimens have been clearly shown to improve pain and disability in osteoarthritis of the knee....
- Knee osteoarthritis is a common but often difficult problem to manage in primary care.
- Some time later I was asked to see a nun who had mild rheumatoid arthritis and well advanced osteoarthritis of both hips.
Derivatives
osteoarthritic
- My mother has had two hip replacements and lots of other osteoarthritic problems, and it seems my brother has it too.
- Backache is, however, unrelated to the presence or absence of osteoarthritic changes or to the severity of the curvature.
- Wearily, I eased myself out of the car, wincing from the pain of my osteoarthritic spine.
Rhymes
- Lower Canada
- lower case
- lower chamber
- lower class
- lower court
- lower critic
- lower criticism
- lower deck
- lower deck rating
- lower depths
- Lower East Side
- lowerer
- lower forty-eight
- Lower Forty-eight (States)
- lower fungus
- lower-grade
- lower house
- Lower Hutt
- lower-income
- lowering
- lower-level
- lower mast
- Lower Merion
- lower-middlebrow
- lower middle class