rheumatoid arthritis
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- noun
- /ˈruːməˌtɔɪd ɑːrˈθraɪtɪs/
- Specialized
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artritis reumatoide
- The triaging nurse notes that Mrs. X is currently taking methotrexate to treat her rheumatoid arthritis.
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
- diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
Eventually these people will present with rheumatoid arthritis like symptoms.
- Eventually these people will present with rheumatoid arthritis like symptoms.
- The joint pain can come from rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis.
- And then my career ended with rheumatoid arthritis.
- And I, I played the whole season with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Her mom has chronic, really severe rheumatoid arthritis, so she can barely get out of bed.
- Autoimmune disease like diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Graves' disease, Crohn's disease, IBS.
- This has been shown to be particularly effective for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis are linked to vitamin D deficiency.
- I got hit with rheumatoid arthritis, I got hit with Marfan's disease, grave disease, hyperthyroidism, and my body was a wreck.
- So rheumatoid arthritis or RA as we call it, is an autoimmune disease.
- Nothing is that true about rheumatoid arthritis?
- I have multiple sclerosis, or I have rheumatoid arthritis, or I have ADHD or I have depression or I have addiction.
- Excuse me, the, the guys medical rheumatoid arthritis people who by the way, done a really good job.
Examples
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The incidence of neuropathy in those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes is 1-5% and 2-4%, respectively.
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Autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis are linked to vitamin D deficiency.
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I had, since I was a child, rheumatoid arthritis.
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How many patients do you have with rheumatoid arthritis?
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Advances in drug treatment have led to better outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis.
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People with rheumatoid arthritis may struggle to give up smoking, research has argued.
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Her mom has chronic, really severe rheumatoid arthritis, so she can barely get out of bed.
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And my mom is suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and that's all about inflammation, right?
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Do biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) improve signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in adults?
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Recently, she was hospitalized with a flare-up of rheumatoid arthritis, made worse, she fears, by stress.
Synonyms
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A condition that causes pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is partially compositional: 'arthritis' clearly denotes a joint condition and the adjective slot signals a subtype, so a learner can infer it is a specific kind of arthritis. However, 'rheumatoid' is a specialized medical term whose precise autoimmune/inflammatory implications are not predictable from basic vocabulary knowledge, so the full clinical meaning would not be clear to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Rheumatoid arthritis comes from old medical words: arthritis refers to 'joint' and 'inflammation', and rheumatoid may come from a word used when pain seemed to 'flow' between joints. So the name gives a picture of swollen, painful joints caused by the body's own defence, which is why it means a long-term illness that damages the joints today.