juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

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   a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded

   SynonymsStill's disease

   Broaderrheumatoid arthritis

Questions about juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

What does juvenile rheumatoid arthritis mean?

juvenile rheumatoid arthritis means "a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded".

What is another word for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?

Close synonyms include Still's disease. 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 juvenile rheumatoid arthritis a common word?

juvenile rheumatoid 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.