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
- Overlap Syndrome
- Palindromic Rheumatism
- Patella
- Peripheral Spondyloarthritis
- Physiatrist
- Physical Therapist
- Physical Therapy
- Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)
- Polychondritis
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Polymyositis
- Post-Traumatic Arthritis
- Proximal
- Proximal Interphalangeal (PIP) Joints
- Pseudogout
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Raynaud’s Disease
- Reactive Arthritis
- Regenerative Medicine
- Restless Leg Syndrome
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
- Rheumatoid Factor
- Rheumatoid Nodules
- Rheumatoid Pannus
- Rheumatoid Vasculitis / Vasculitis
- Rheumatologist
- Rotator Cuff
- Sarcoidosis
- Scapulothoracic Joint
- Scleroderma
- Septic Arthritis
- Seronegative Arthritis
- Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
- Sjögren’s Syndrome
- Sleep Apnea
- Spondylitis
