- any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues
- rheumatoid arthritis: a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of ...
- Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the joints and connective tissue. The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology.
- Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability; atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
- Any disorder associated with pain in joints
- Defined broadly, it is almost any chronic dull ache resulting from and associated with the aging process.
- a general term for acute or chronic conditions characterized by inflammation of the muscles and joints (includes arthritis, gout, bursitis, myositis, and fibromyositis).
- An indefinite term applied to various conditions with pain or other symptoms which are of articular origin or related to other elements of the musculoskeletal system. (articular= relating to a joint).
- Any of a variety of disorders marked by inflammation, degeneration, or metabolic derangement of the connective tissue structures of the body. ...
- An older term referring to painful conditions of muscles, bones, joints, and tendons.
- Various conditions characterized by inflammation or pain in joints, muscles or fibrous tissue.
- A non-specific term for general joint pain.
- A broad term used to describe inflammation, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscle or joints.
- This is a general term which covers any inflammatory process in the muscle or joints; here its meaning will be limited to muscular rheumatism as Arthitris has already been covered.
- Lay word for any ache in the joints
- Stiffness of joints and muscles