JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does juvenile rheumatoid arthritis mean? 

• JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (noun)
  The noun JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; Still's disease

Hypernyms ("juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" is a kind of...):

atrophic arthritis; rheumatism; 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 all components of the joint)

 Context examples 

Only one subtype of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (polyarticular-onset, rheumatoid factor-positive) clinically resembles adult rheumatoid arthritis and is considered its childhood equivalent.

(Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis affecting four or fewer joints, usually asymmetrically.

(Oligoarticular Still Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a type of arthritis that happens in children age 16 or younger.

(Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a form of the disease that happens in children.

(Arthritis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)