Bone, Joint and Muscle Terms

An aggressive (fast-growing) disease in which too many myeloblasts (immature white blood cells that are not lymphoblasts) are found in the bone marrow and blood.

A drug used to treat symptoms of anxiety, such as feelings of fear, dread, uneasiness, and muscle tightness, that may occur as a reaction to stress.

Describes a drug or effect that works against cachexia (loss of body weight and muscle mass).

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.

An anxiolytic is a medication used to relieve anxiety symptoms, most familiarly a benzodiazepine that enhances a calming brain chemical's effect.

A drug used to treat symptoms of anxiety, such as feelings of fear, dread, uneasiness, and muscle tightness, that may occur as a reaction to stress.

A substance being studied in the treatment of soft tissue and bone cancers.

APL is an aggressive subtype of acute myeloid leukemia marked by a specific chromosomal rearrangement and treated differently from other forms.

A condition in which the bone marrow is unable to produce blood cells.

A missing letter rather than a different symptom: the same joint pain, spelled the way it is often typed and rarely corrected.

How many joints hurt, whether they match on both sides, and how long morning stiffness lasts sort the causes faster than the pain itself.

A disease that causes inflammation and pain in the joints.

Ataxia is impaired coordination of voluntary movement, causing unsteady walking, clumsy limb motion, or imprecise gestures despite normal muscle strength.

A rare, inherited, progressive, degenerative disease of childhood that causes loss of muscle control, a weakened immune system, and an increased risk of cancer.

A drug used to block nerve stimulation of muscles and glands and relax smooth muscles.

A procedure that uses gold salts (a salt form of the metal element gold) to treat diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

In transplantation, refers to a person's own bone marrow.

Two opposing divisions, one for action and one for rest, keep heart rate, blood pressure, and digestion balanced without any conscious effort.

An aggressive (fast-growing) type of leukemia (blood cancer) in which too many B-cell lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the bone marrow and blood.

An aggressive (fast-growing) type of leukemia (blood cancer) in which too many B-cell lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the bone marrow and blood.