still's disease

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

   Synonymsjuvenile rheumatoid arthritis

   Broaderrheumatoid arthritis

Questions about still's disease

What does still's disease mean?

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

What is another word for still's disease?

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

still's disease 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.