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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint
Synonyms:
atrophic arthritis; rheumatism; rheumatoid arthritis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("rheumatoid arthritis" is a kind of...):
arthritis (inflammation of a joint or joints)
autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)
Domain category:
virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rheumatoid arthritis"):
psoriatic arthritis (a form of rheumatoid arthritis usually affecting fingers and toes and associated with psoriasis)
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; Still's disease (a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded)
Context examples:
A rare condition that involves inflammation and necrosis of the walls of the blood vessels; may occur in rheumatoid arthritis.
(Necrotizing Vasculitis, NCI Thesaurus)
TNF inhibitors are also used to treat chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)
Increased serum concentrations of these peptides are associated with pathologies that cause bone lysis, such as multiple myeloma, osteolytic metastases, and rheumatoid arthritis.
(C-Terminal Telopeptide Type I Collagen, NCI Thesaurus)
This syndrome may be associated with repetitive occupational trauma (CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS); wrist injuries; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; rheumatoid arthritis (see ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID); ACROMEGALY; PREGNANCY; and other conditions.
(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
This agent maybe used in T-cell related autoimmune diseases including psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn s disease and T-cell cancers
(Peldesine, NCI Thesaurus)
A procedure that uses gold salts (a salt form of the metal element gold) to treat diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
(Aurotherapy, NCI Dictionary)
While drugs such as etanercept and anakinra, which are routinely used to treat autoinflammatory and chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, had little effect on the patients, one biological drug called tocilizumab did.
(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)
An orally available, lipophilic, organogold compound, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, with anti-inflammatory and potential antineoplastic activities.
(Auranofin, NCI Thesaurus)
Other causes include performing assembly line work, wrist injury, or swelling due to certain diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
It is also used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis that does not get better with other types of treatment.
(Azathioprine sodium, NCI Dictionary)
