Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable, usually)Involving or pertaining to rheumatism, especially rheumatoid arthritis.

    of or pertaining to arthritis

  2. (dated, not comparable, usually)Presenting analogies with rheumatism.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom has recently been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

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  2. People with rheumatoid arthritis symptoms should be careful about what they eat.

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  3. This cold weather is really bad for rheumatoid arthritis.

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  4. I have rheumatoid arthritis.

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  5. My mother has rheumatoid arthritis.

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Translations

4 languages

Origin

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

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Forms

more rheumatoid, most rheumatoid
Comparativemore rheumatoid Lesson
Superlativemost rheumatoid Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rheumatoid — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto