arthralgia
How many joints hurt, whether they match on both sides, and how long morning stiffness lasts sort the causes faster than the pain itself.
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36 matchesarthritis
A disease that causes inflammation and pain in the joints.
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Calling it wear and tear undersells it, since cartilage cells actively dismantle their own matrix and the bone changes alongside.
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Stiffness that is worst on waking and eases with movement is the pattern separating it from ordinary wear on a joint.
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A missing letter rather than a different symptom: the same joint pain, spelled the way it is often typed and rarely corrected.
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An arthritis caused by crystals rather than by wear, which is why it arrives overnight and can leave the joint untouched between attacks.
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Pain and nothing more: an ending reporting a symptom the person feels, with no claim about what is causing it.
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The commonest ending in the whole vocabulary, and the one most often misread as proof that an infection is present.
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Surgery that rebuilds rather than removes, marking an operation whose whole purpose is shape and working function.
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Looking inside with an instrument, an act named separately from the instrument that does it and from any image recorded.
Read definitionacquired pure red cell aplasia
A rare disorder in which the bone marrow makes almost no red blood cells.
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A drug used to treat some types of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe skin conditions, such as psoriasis.
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Anti-inflammatory describes a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation, the body's protective but sometimes damaging response to injury or irritation.
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A substance that has been studied in the treatment of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and certain skin conditions.
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A procedure that uses gold salts (a salt form of the metal element gold) to treat diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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Pain that worsens with joint movement, along with local swelling and warmth, are hallmark features of bursitis, inflammation of a fluid-filled cushioning sac.
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A substance that has been studied in the treatment of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and certain skin conditions.
Read definitioncalgranulin A
A protein that is made by many different types of cells and is involved in processes that take place both inside and outside of the cell.
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A protein that is made by many different types of cells and is involved in processes that take place both inside and outside of the cell.
Read definitionchondrocyte
Chondrocytes are the sole resident cells of cartilage, embedded within the tissue's own matrix and responsible for producing and maintaining it.
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