rheumatoid factor

1. 1.

   autoantibody that is usually present in the serum of people with rheumatoid arthritis

   Broaderautoantibody

Questions about rheumatoid factor

What does rheumatoid factor mean?

rheumatoid factor means "autoantibody that is usually present in the serum of people with rheumatoid arthritis".

Is rheumatoid factor a common word?

rheumatoid factor 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.