Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease or abnormality of a joint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disease of a joint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Any disease of the joints.
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- noun medicine Any of several
diseases of ajoint
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pathology or abnormality of a joint
Etymologies
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Examples
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Potter was plagued from early adulthood with psoriatic arthropathy, a rare form of arthritis.
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To examine the prevalence of hip arthropathy, the researchers performed a case-control study of the 10,162 patients with hemophilia A or B in the Universal Data Collection Database.
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When those do not provide lasting pain relief, the primary interventional treatment for facet arthropathy is radiofrequency neurotomy.
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The researchers suggest reconsidering the guidelines for treating facet arthropathy.
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Studies have suggested that nonhemophilic arthropathy in children results in worse hip destruction than if the joint involvement begins in adulthood.
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In the logistic regression analysis, ankle and knee arthropathy were very strong independent predictors of hip involvement, Kelly said.
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Psor arthropathy since 2004 pain +++ Fingers and toes deformities ++
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The following factors also were significantly associated with hip arthropathy:
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Whilst patellofemoral pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders presenting to orthopaedic clinics, sports clinics, and general practices, factors contributing to its development in the absence of a defined arthropathy, such as osteoarthritis (OA), are unclear.
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A longitudinal analysis to examine the temporal relationships between these variables and hip arthropathy is under way and may further clarify these associations, Kelly said.
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