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antirheumatic

antirheumatic

6.0
For preventing or easing symptoms of joint diseases like arthritis
  • adjective
  • /ˌæntiˈruːmətɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : antirreumático
  • Keywords: Antirheumatic agents; Arthritis, rheumatoid; Tumor necrosis factor-alpha
  • antirheumatic drugs
  • disease-modifying antirheumatic
  • antirheumatic agents

Examples

  • Do biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) improve signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in adults?

    Academic text (2014)
  • Doctors prescribe antirheumatic medications to help manage the pain and inflammation caused by arthritis.

  • After a discussion of the chemical conventions used to describe chirality, examples of the influence of chirality on the efficacy and toxicity of antirheumatic drugs are given.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The criteria for selection were: (1) women between the ages of 40 and 60 years, with established rheumatoid arthritis for at least 3 years, and (2) stable treatment with a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug for at least 4 months.

    Academic text (2003)
  • There have been considerable advances in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. However, many patients are found to be refractory to traditional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and the newer anti-cytokine therapies.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Included studies had durations of 12 weeks and compared TNF inhibitors with placebo or traditional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in adults 19 years of age with RA.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs help relieve the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and prevent joint damage.

  • Patients often experience significant improvement in their symptoms after starting antirheumatic treatment for their rheumatic disease.

Synonyms

antiphlogistic
vsantirheumatic
  • Archaic
9.9

Reducing swelling and redness in a part of the body

targets symptoms of diseases like arthritis rather than general inflammation

How Effective

effective
986 3.1
antirheumatic
  • Specialized
6.0
mild
107 1.0
ineffective
90 3.4

Surface Forms

antirheumatic positive

Morphology

antirheumatic = rheumatic (semi-transparent) = anti + rheumat + ic

The word is transparently built with anti- plus the medical adjective rheumatic, but the specialized medical sense may not be fully recoverable for a B1 learner.

Etymology

The word antirheumatic comes from anti- meaning 'against' and rheuma meaning 'flow', the old idea behind rheumatism that painful joints came from a wrong 'flow' in the body. So antirheumatic describes something that fights rheumatic disease or the joint pain it causes.