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rheumatoid

[ roo-muh-toid ]

adjective

  1. resembling rheumatism.


rheumatoid

/ ˈruːməˌtɔɪd /

adjective

  1. (of the symptoms of a disease) resembling rheumatism


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Derived Forms

  • ˌrheumaˈtoidally, adverb

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Other Words From

  • rheuma·toidal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rheumatoid1

1855–60; < Greek rheumat- (stem of rheûma; rheum ) + -oid

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Example Sentences

Researchers have found that a drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis helped a patient suffering from alopecia halt his hair loss.

The thing is that autoimmune diseases—like diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and rheumatoid arthritis—are on the rise.

In 1994, Bill Poling was 36, unemployed and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

Abbott, a global health-care company, produces everything from feeding tubes to rheumatoid-arthritis medication.

Well, part of that was the medication for my rheumatoid arthritis.

Associated with it are evidently symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, which is affecting her joints and teeth.

He admits that the latter is often associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

The question of acute rheumatic arthritis exciting a chronic rheumatoid affection will arise hereafter.

The reader may consult the observations made on four of these affections in connection with the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.

The symptoms and clinical history of general or polyarticular and progressive rheumatoid arthritis.

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