Diseases

Osteoarthritis

A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.

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Abstract

A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.

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  • Arthritis, Degenerative
  • Osteoarthrosis
  • Arthritides, Degenerative
  • Degenerative Arthritides
  • Degenerative Arthritis
  • Osteoarthritides
  • Osteoarthroses
  • Arthroses
  • Arthrosis
  • Osteoarthrosis Deformans

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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History Note

2013; for Arthrosis use Joint Diseases 2017-2019

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Osteoarthritis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010003. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010003
  2. Osteoarthritis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoarthritis
  3. Osteoarthritis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62736