(n.) Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(3) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(4) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
(5) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(6) Immune arthritis in sensitized rabbits was induced by intraarticular injection of bovine serum albumin.
(7) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(8) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(9) Type II includes the Sjögren's syndrome, rhumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(10) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) The baseline serum hyaluronate (HA) concentration from samples obtained five to seven hours after mobilization of the patient was quantified using a radiometric 125I-HA binding method in 58 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and compared with several clinical and laboratory parameters by means of stepwise multiple linear regression.
(12) There was no association between testicular dysfunction and the presence of extra-articular features of rheumatoid arthritis.
(13) This experimental study shows that vitamin A in high doses has an adjuvant effect, that is aggravating considerably the immunologic arthritis induced in the Wistar rat.
(14) There are general problems with the ways in which coping has been conceptualized and measured by researchers evaluating stress and coping, and there are problems more specific to the ways coping concepts and measures have been used to study patients with arthritis.
(15) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(16) The average was 64 points for patients who had rheumatoid arthritis and 83 points for those who had another diagnosis.
(17) We speculate that intestinal injury may also induce or perpetuate arthritis by systemic distribution of inflammatory mediators produced by intestinal immune effector cells.
(18) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
(19) Four episodes each of myasthenia gravis and pemphigus occurred in our patients; both were reported rarely in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(20) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Arthrosis
Definition:
(n.) Articulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studies were conducted into the relationship between arthrosis and previous trauma.
(2) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(3) Arthrosis of the hip is a biological process which can be divided into four stages.
(4) Damage to the cartilage by immobilisation can be prevented, the frequency of post-traumatic arthrosis reduced.
(5) The best prognosis of the osteotomy is in the early stage of arthrosis (Ahlbäck 0-II).
(6) Quality of life before and one year after total hip arthroplasty was evaluated in fifty-six patients who had arthrosis of the hip joint.
(7) Our results implied that crepitation is a rather unreliable sign of arthrosis.
(8) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
(9) In the deforming osteo-arthrosis (150 observations) in the synovial sheath there were usually noted drastic sclerosis and atrophy of organ-specific structures, impairmement of the production of the synovial fluid, and dystrophic falling into fibers of the articular cartilage with intensive proliferation of the cartilage cells.
(10) Uptake in the other benign lesions such as trauma of the ribs, spondylosis deformans, and arthrosis deformans was rather faint.
(11) They were also asked to define the terms arthrosis and herniated disc once before the BS and twice after the program.
(12) Arthritis and arthrosis may be differentiated by the different distribution and extent of hyperthermia.
(13) This aetiological differentiation has the aim of counteracting the facile diagnosis of primary arthrosis and is based on more elaborate diagnostic methods concerning the condition of the bone and cartilage.
(14) In arthrosis the intraosseous pressure was normal, whereas intraosseous hypertension was present in necrosis.
(15) With reference to cartilage, the lesions of Paget's coxopathies presented several specific characteristics compared with those of common arthrosis : (1) the presence of particularly numerous cupshaped defects on the remaining cartilage; (2) a very basophilic, intra- and extra-cytoplasmic substance impregnated the chondroplasts of the bottom layer, nine times out of twenty-six, an anomaly not observed in cases of arthrosis; (3) pseudo-angiomatous vascular outgrowths from the bone, flush with the articular surface of the acetabulum are a source of bleeding during surgery.
(16) The subjects were 37 female patients with juvenile TMJ arthrosis (T group) and 27 healthy females (N group) who visited the Dept.
(17) The patients in the group, that had received more conservative treatment with an average 6.3 years between lesion and surgical treatment (group 1), had the highest incidence of arthrosis, with 73.6%.
(18) An arthrosis of severity O due to sclerosis is of no, or only little, significance; it does not share the poor prognosis of severity grades I to III which, once they have developed, always show further deterioration.
(19) Results of this study indicated that, in patients with acquired stenosis secondary to facet arthrosis, posterior compression of the thecal sac by epidural fat was identified.
(20) Macroscopic observation as well as light and electromicroscopy revealed lesions comparable to those observed in patients with chondromalacia of the patella and arthrosis.