antirheumatic
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈruːmətɪk/
- Specialized
- Keywords: Antirheumatic agents; Arthritis, rheumatoid; Tumor necrosis factor-alpha
- antirheumatic drugs
- disease-modifying antirheumatic
- antirheumatic agents
Examples
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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.
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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.
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Patients often experience significant improvement in their symptoms after starting antirheumatic treatment for their rheumatic disease.
Synonyms
Reducing swelling and redness in a part of the body
How Effective
Surface Forms
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.