Glossary - Understandable Definitions of Medical Terms
The Arthritis-health Medical Glossary provides accurate, easy-to-understand definitions for common (and not-so-common) terms related to joint pain, arthritis, joint replacement surgery, and more. Click on a letter to get started.
Glossary Term
- COX-2 Inhibitors
- Creatine Phosphokinase
- Crepitus
- Cryoglobulinemia
- Curcumin
- Curcuminoids
- Cytokines
- De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
- Dermatomyositis
- Diabetic Finger Sclerosis
- Dietician
- Disease Activity Scores (DAS and DAS28)
- Distal
- Distal Interphalangeal (DIP) Joints
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Dupuytren’s Contracture (Palmar Fibromatosis)
- Eosinophilic Fasciitis (Shulman’s Syndrome)
- Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Test (ESR)
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Felty Syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Fibrosis
- Finkelstein Test
- Frozen Shoulder
- Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
- Glenohumeral Joint
- Glucosamine
- Goodpasture’s Syndrome
- Gout
- Haglund Deformity
- Hemochromatosis
- Hip Impingement
- Hip Replacement Surgery
- HLA-B27 Gene
- Hyaluronic Acid
- Hyaluronic Acid Injection
