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A term referring to a variety of conditions characterized by inflammation of one or more joints. Arthritis is commonly regarded as a disease of the elderly, but there are several varieties that primarily affect children, including juvenile rheumat...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Arthritis is inflammation of one or more joints, which results in pain, swelling, stiffness, and limited movement. There are over 100 different types of arthritis. See also: Joint pain
Source:ADAM
Date:January 10, 2009
Bruxism is the habit of clenching and grinding the teeth. It most often occurs at night during sleep, but it may also occur during the day. It is an unconscious behavior, perhaps performed to release anxiety , aggression, or anger.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Bruxism is when you clench (tightly hold your top and bottom teeth together) or grind (slide your teeth back and forth over each other) your teeth.
Source:ADAM
Date:April 24, 2008
Bruxism is the habit of clenching and grinding the teeth. It most often occurs at night during sleep, but may also occur during the day. It is an unconscious behavior or habit perhaps performed to release anxiety , aggression, or anger.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Bruxism is a habitual grinding or clenching of the teeth. The behavior is usually unconscious, occurs most often during sleep, and is a reaction to periods of stress in the patient's life.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
A broken jaw is a break in the jaw bone. A dislocated jaw means the lower part of the jaw has moved out of its normal position at one or both joints where the jaw bone connects to the skull (temporomandibular joints.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 15, 2008
Fibromyalgia is described as inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body. Widespread muscle pain, fatigue , and multiple tender points characterize these conditions. Many individuals with fibromyalgia describe the symptoms as simi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Fibromyalgia is a common condition characterized by long-term, body-wide pain and tender points in joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues. Fibromyalgia has also been linked to fatigue, morning stiffness, sleep problems, headaches, numbne...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 22, 2009
Fibromyalgia is described as inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body. Widespread muscle pain , fatigue , and multiple tender points characterize these conditions. Fibrositis, fibromyalgia, and fibromyositis are names given to ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Fibromyalgia (formerly known as fibrositis) is an inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue (muscles, joints, ligaments, and tendons) of the body. Widespread pain , fatigue, and multiple tender points characterize this condition. Other symp...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that primarily targets synovial tissues. It is relatively common with a prevalence of approximately 1% in adults all over the world.
Source:Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and deformity of the joints. Other problems throughout the body (systemic problems) may also develop, including inflammation of blood vessels ( vasculitis ), the de...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term disease that leads to inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. It can also affect other organs.
Source:ADAM
Date:February 22, 2009
The following Clinical Topic Tour provides an overview of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and was adapted from materials published by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Source:Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by symmetric inflammatory polyarthritis and varying degrees of extraarticular involvement. A chronic fluctuating course of the disease is experienced by most patients that may result in joint destruction, deformity, disability and premature death. 1?4 Major economic and emotional disabilities can result from RA and can have a significant impact on patients? families and loved ones.
Source:Elsevier
Over the past twenty years the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has undergone dramatic changes, particularly in the past five years. Traditionally, RA was diagnosed late in the disease course, the symptoms were treated without addressing the underlying damaging nature of RA, referral to specialist teams was delayed, and drugs that might slow the disease process down (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)) were introduced after joints had eroded.
Source:Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the joints, most often in the hands and feet. It results in swelling, stiffness, pain, and sometimes joint, bone, and cartilage destruction.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease of the joints, the cause of which is still unknown. Infectious factors are being studied, including bacterial and viral organisms, but no definite involvement of any agent has been proven. There...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease causing inflammation and deformity of the joints. Other systemic problems throughout the body may also develop, including inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis), the development of bumps (rheumato...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
A dislocation is a separation of two bones where they meet at a joint. (Joints are areas where two bones come together) A dislocated bone is no longer in its normal position. A dislocation may also cause ligament or nerve damage.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 12, 2008
Dislocation is the displacement of bones that form a joint. A joint is where two or more bones meet. In a dislocation, the surfaces of the bones that normally articulate with each other (i.e., join together to allow movement) no longer line up cor...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
In medicine, the terms dislocation and subluxation refer to the displacement of bones that form a joint. These conditions affecting the joint most often result from trauma that causes adjoining bones to no longer align with each other. A partial o...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Facial trauma is any injury of the face and upper jaw bone (maxilla.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 6, 2009
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