arthritides
- 1Plural of arthritis.
The inflammatory arthritides include rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.
Rheumatologists distinguish the various arthritides by their underlying causes and patterns of joint involvement.
Note
A clinician's plural, needed only when arthritis is counted rather than treated as one condition. In everyday speech arthritis is uncountable: someone simply has arthritis. Medicine, though, treats it as several disease entities with different causes, and the Greek-style ending -itides lets a writer group them as a class. Outside specialist writing, "types of arthritis" is the natural phrasing, and arthritides signals a technical register.
arthritides is a form of arthritis
arthritis, noun: Inflammation of one or more joints causing pain, swelling, and stiffness, arising from causes such as infection, injury, degenerative change, or metabolic disorder. Full entry
- Forms
- arthritisarthritides pluralarthritises plural
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