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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

After Jewell Singletary was diagnosed with lupus, she developed rheumatoid arthritis as well—a common pairing, since both are autoimmune conditions—and had to use a cane to navigate her college campus.

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Immune cells also play a role in autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, which can flare up in people who are stressed.

They have lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, spinal compression fractures, and more.

Lamminen also has elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis, which can jeopardize the immune system.

A chronic infection may have the same commercial potential as a drug for diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis.

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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