PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psoriatic arthritis mean? 

• PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (noun)
  The noun PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS has 1 sense:

1. a form of rheumatoid arthritis usually affecting fingers and toes and associated with psoriasis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of rheumatoid arthritis usually affecting fingers and toes and associated with psoriasis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("psoriatic 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 

Psoriatic arthritis affects people with psoriasis.

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