atrophic arthritis

Questions about atrophic arthritis

What does atrophic arthritis mean?

atrophic arthritis means "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".

What is another word for atrophic arthritis?

Close synonyms include rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atrophic arthritis a common word?

atrophic arthritis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.