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
- Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy
- Iliopsoas Bursitis
- Inflammation
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Inflammatory Markers
- Jaccoud’s Arthropathy
- Joint
- Joint Replacement Surgery
- Juvenile Chronic Arthritis
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Kawasaki Disease
- Knee Arthroplasty
- Labral Tear
- Labrum
- Lateral
- Leaky Gut
- Ligament
- Löfgren’s Syndrome
- Lupus
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Medial
- Metacarpophalangeal (MCP) Joints
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD)
- Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis
- Nodular Panniculitis (Weber-Christian Disease)
- Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
- Nutritionist
- Olecranon Bursitis
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- Opioids
- Orthotic
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteopenia
- Osteoporosis
- Osteotomy
