Rheumatoid

Quick meaning: Rheumatoid is an adjective meaning (medicine, usually) Involving or pertaining to rheumatism, especially rheumatoid arthritis.

Meaning

(medicine, usually) Involving or pertaining to rheumatism, especially rheumatoid arthritis.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, dated) Presenting analogies with rheumatism.
2. (medicine, dated) A person with rheumatoid arthritis.

Example Sentences

Rheumatoid sufferers have such pain and discomfort every day of their lives that they live eternally in high hopes of something effective turning up.

The highly significant findings with regard to hurt feelings suggests that the hypothesis that rheumatoids learn to hide their hurt feelings [7] and are reticent about expressing their dissatisfactions [4] may be correct.

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.

Word Forms

• rheumatoids

Synonyms for rheumatoid

Depending on context, synonyms include unhealthy, creaky, rheumatic, arthritic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rheumatic, arthritic, creaky, unhealthy, rheumatological, rheumatismal.

Related Dictionary Tools