Lexic.us

Definition of Arthritic

1. Noun. A person afflicted with arthritis. "The hands of an elderly arthritic"

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to arthritis. "Rheumy with age and grief"

Definition of Arthritic

1. a. Pertaining to the joints.

Definition of Arthritic

1. Adjective. Of, or affected by arthritis. ¹

2. Noun. A person with arthritis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arthritic

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Arthritic

1. Relating to arthritis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arthritic

artfulnesses artgoing arthen arthoplasty arthouse arthouses arthragra arthral arthralgia arthralgia saturnina

arthralgias arthralgic arthrectomy arthresthesia arthrifuge arthritic (current term) arthritic atrophy arthritic calculus arthritic general pseudoparalysis arthritical

arthritically arthritics arthritide arthritides arthritis arthritis deformans arthritis in children arthritis mutilans arthritis nodosa arthritislike

Literary usage of Arthritic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"The disease described by the German ophthalmologists under the name of arthritic ophthalmia, is known by many remarkable characters, ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Those cases which end in glaucoma, and which are described as forms of arthritic ophthalmia. 4. The cases in which there are no other than the subjective ..."

3. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"redness ; in the arthritic and syphilitic, severe pain in the eye and its ... In syphilitic, rheumatic, and arthritic ophthalmia», the redness is in the ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(6) Clinical Forms of Gout "We distinguish several forms including (1) typical acute gouty arthritic attacks, (2) an acute or subacute polyarticular form of ..."

5. Lectures on the Principles and Methods of Medical Observation and Research by Thomas Laycock (1857)
"The arthritic diathesis and cachexia, as manifested in 'woman, have never had ... The arthritic cachexia in the female predisposes to chronic skin diseases, ..."

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