osteoarthritis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of arthritis, affecting mainly older people, caused by chronic degeneration of the cartilage and synovial membrane of the joints, leading to pain and stiffness. countable,uncountable
    — For example, among the papers directed at arthropathies, all the population studies in the bibliometric survey relied on macroscopy alone[…]. These were principally studies of osteoarthritis[…], for which there are standard diagnostic protocols based on macroscopic changes[…].

词形变化

osteoarthritides plural osteoarthritises plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁
Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der.
English osteo-
English arthritis
English osteoarthritis
From osteo- + arthritis.
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