| paediatric arthritis | Arthritis is not just a problem for the retired. It can and does affect children in the form of paediatric arthritis. Also called juvenile arthritis. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| paediatric | 1. Relating to the care and medical treatment of children, belonging to or concerned with paediatrics. 2. <study> The medical study of the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders in children is called paediatrics. (10 Jan 1998) |
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| paediatric assistants | Persons academically trained to provide medical care, under the supervision of a physician, to infants and children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paediatric dentistry | The practice of dentistry concerned with the dental problems of children, proper maintenance, and treatment. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paediatric nursing | The nursing care of children from birth to adolescence. It includes the clinical and psychological aspects of nursing care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paediatric radiology | The clinical subspecialty concerned with the radiological manifestations of diseases of children. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hospitals, paediatric | Special hospitals which provide care for ill children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| intensive care units, paediatric | Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill infants and children. Neonates are excluded since intensive care units, neonatal is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| acute rheumatic arthritis | Arthritis due to rheumatic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arthritis | <rheumatology> An inflammatory condition that affects joints. Can be infective, autoimmune, traumatic in origin. Origin: Gr. Arthron = joint (18 Nov 1997) |
| arthritis, adjuvant | An arthritis experimentally induced in animals with freund's adjuvant. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arthritis deformans | A systemic disease, seen more commonly in women which affects connective tissue, particularly the synovial tissue within joints. Arthritis is the main clinical feature and involves many joints in the body, especially those of the hand and feet. In this disease, there is thickening of the soft tissues around the joints and extension of the synovial tissue over articular cartilage (which becomes eroded). A chronic and progressive course is common with joint deformities and disability. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a variant which affects children. (27 Sep 1997) |
| arthritis, degenerative | A type of arthritis caused by inflammation, breakdown, and eventual loss of the cartilage of the joints. Also called osteoarthritis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arthritis-encephalitis virus, caprine | A species of lentivirus, subgenus ovine-caprine lentiviruses (lentiviruses, ovine-caprine), closely related to visna-maedi virus and causing acute encephalomyelitis, chronic arthritis, pneumonia, mastitis, and glomerulonephritis in goats. It is transmitted mainly in the colostrum and milk. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arthritis, gout | Joint inflammation caused by uric acid crystal deposits in the joint space An attack is usually extremely painful.The uric acid crystals are deposited in the joint fluid (synovial fluid) and joint lining (synovial lining). Intense joint inflammation occurs as white blood cells engulf the uric acid crystals, causing pain, heat, and redness of the joint tissues. The term gout commonly is used to refer to these painful arthritis attacks but gouty arthritis is only one manifeatation of gout. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arthritis, gouty | Arthritis, especially of the great toe, as a result of gout. Acute gouty arthritis often is precipitated by trauma, infection, surgery, etc. The initial attacks are usually monoarticular but later attacks are often polyarticular. (12 Dec 1998) |