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Arthritic   /ɑrθrˈɪtɪk/   Listen
Arthritic

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to arthritis.  Synonyms: creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy.  "Rheumy with age and grief"
noun
1.
A person afflicted with arthritis.





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"Arthritic" Quotes from Famous Books



... ushered in by a febrile attack attended with pains in several joints—described by John Duncan as tuberculous arthritic fever. This is liable to be mistaken for rheumatic fever, from which, however, it differs in that there is no real migration from joint to joint; there is an absence of sweating and of cardiac complications; and no benefit follows the ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
... years of age, is a strong man of arthritic temperament. He has suffered for several years with violent gastralgia and obstinate dyspepsia, for which he has long used morphine. The oesophagal symptoms appear to date back to the month of September, 1887, when he had a painful regurgitation ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various


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