osteoarthritis

1. 1.

   chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; the most common form of arthritis occurring usually after middle age

   Synonymsdegenerative arthritisdegenerative joint disease

   Broaderarthritis

Other forms of osteoarthritis

plural

osteoarthritises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about osteoarthritis

What does osteoarthritis mean?

osteoarthritis means "chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; the most common form of arthritis occurring usually after middle age".

How many syllables are in osteoarthritis?

osteoarthritis has 6 syllables: o-ste-o-ar-thri-tis. The stress falls on "thri". In IPA it is /ˌɑstiˌoʊɑɹˈθɹaɪtəs/.

What is another word for osteoarthritis?

Close synonyms include degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint 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 osteoarthritis a common word?

osteoarthritis 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.

What rhymes with osteoarthritis?

1 word rhymes with osteoarthritis. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.