Arthritic
adjective
Relating to or suffering from arthritis.
My grandmother is arthritic and can't move her hands very well.
Often appears as...
- arthritic joints
- arthritic pain
noun
A person who has arthritis.
As an arthritic, he has difficulty in walking.
Often appears as...
- managing an arthritic
- member of family is an arthritic
adjective
Characterized by stiffness and difficulty in movement because of pain in the joints.
The cold weather has made the door arthritic, it doesn't open easily.
Often appears as...
- arthritic machinery
- arthritic movements
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
Relating to or suffering from arthritis.
My grandmother is arthritic and can't move her hands very well.
Often appears as...
- arthritic joints
- arthritic pain
noun
A person who has arthritis.
As an arthritic, he has difficulty in walking.
Often appears as...
- managing an arthritic
- member of family is an arthritic
adjective
Characterized by stiffness and difficulty in movement because of pain in the joints.
The cold weather has made the door arthritic, it doesn't open easily.
Often appears as...
- arthritic machinery
- arthritic movements
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Used to describe symptoms or conditions related to arthritis, often referring to pain or immobility.
She avoided knitting as her arthritic fingers ached.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Elderly
Commonly associated with older people, as arthritis is more prevalent in this demographic.
The arthritic patients at the clinic were mainly senior citizens.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Nuance
May imply a sense of sympathy or concern when referring to individuals.
Seeing the arthritic man struggle with stairs made me feel empathetic.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Used to describe symptoms or conditions related to arthritis, often referring to pain or immobility.
She avoided knitting as her arthritic fingers ached.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Elderly
Commonly associated with older people, as arthritis is more prevalent in this demographic.
The arthritic patients at the clinic were mainly senior citizens.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Nuance
May imply a sense of sympathy or concern when referring to individuals.
Seeing the arthritic man struggle with stairs made me feel empathetic.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Used to describe symptoms or conditions related to arthritis, often referring to pain or immobility.
She avoided knitting as her arthritic fingers ached.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Elderly
Commonly associated with older people, as arthritis is more prevalent in this demographic.
The arthritic patients at the clinic were mainly senior citizens.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Nuance
May imply a sense of sympathy or concern when referring to individuals.
Seeing the arthritic man struggle with stairs made me feel empathetic.
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Ross Lovegrove: The...
It fits the hand. It fits arthritic hands. It fits children's hands. It makes the product strong, the tessellation. It's a millefiori of ideas. In the future, they will look like that, because we need to move away from those type of polymers and use that for medical equipment and more important things, perhaps, in life.
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Kevin Stone: The...
and then developed an arthritic knee. And I'm sure that many of you in this audience have that same story, and, by the way, I married a woman who has exactly the same story. So this motivated me to become an orthopedic surgeon and to see if I couldn't focus on solutions for those problems
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Michael Levin: The...
This is not only for making useful machines. You can imagine now programming these to go out into the environment and collect toxins and cleanup, or you could imagine ones made out of human cells that would go through your body and collect cancer cells or reshape arthritic joints,
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
then that's it and them are unable to chew anything but at the same time they've often got old by then and are showing symptoms of old age which is too general decrepitude difficulty moving I don't know how arthritic they get they don't get the lifestyle diseases that we
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Bee Therapy PIPE National...
once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe she couldn't cook or even stand up straight
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Bee Therapy PIPE National...
acupuncture as a labor of love even he once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for a textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe
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Bee Therapy PIPE National...
once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for a textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe she couldn't cook or even stand up
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Latif Nasser: The...
But as I saw Bonica's pain -- a testament to his fully lived life -- I started to remember all the things that my mom's pain holds. Before they got swollen and arthritic,
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Why haven’t we cured...
These arthritis-fighting behaviors can help us lead longer lives as we continue to research cures and treatments for the huge diversity of arthritic conditions.
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Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...
everyone there is horse honor he is giving us a serious runaround Judah is having the workout or arthritic
Video examples
Ross Lovegrove: The...
It fits the hand. It fits arthritic hands. It fits children's hands. It makes the product strong, the tessellation. It's a millefiori of ideas. In the future, they will look like that, because we need to move away from those type of polymers and use that for medical equipment and more important things, perhaps, in life.
Video examples
Kevin Stone: The...
and then developed an arthritic knee. And I'm sure that many of you in this audience have that same story, and, by the way, I married a woman who has exactly the same story. So this motivated me to become an orthopedic surgeon and to see if I couldn't focus on solutions for those problems
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
This is not only for making useful machines. You can imagine now programming these to go out into the environment and collect toxins and cleanup, or you could imagine ones made out of human cells that would go through your body and collect cancer cells or reshape arthritic joints,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
then that's it and them are unable to chew anything but at the same time they've often got old by then and are showing symptoms of old age which is too general decrepitude difficulty moving I don't know how arthritic they get they don't get the lifestyle diseases that we
Video examples
Bee Therapy PIPE National...
once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe she couldn't cook or even stand up straight
Video examples
Bee Therapy PIPE National...
acupuncture as a labor of love even he once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for a textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe
Video examples
Bee Therapy PIPE National...
once considered it taboo in fact like most of us he was afraid of bees thirty years ago mr. Chen was an executive for a textiles company then his wife began to suffer from arthritic pain so severe she couldn't cook or even stand up
Video examples
Latif Nasser: The...
But as I saw Bonica's pain -- a testament to his fully lived life -- I started to remember all the things that my mom's pain holds. Before they got swollen and arthritic,
Video examples
Why haven’t we cured...
These arthritis-fighting behaviors can help us lead longer lives as we continue to research cures and treatments for the huge diversity of arthritic conditions.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...
everyone there is horse honor he is giving us a serious runaround Judah is having the workout or arthritic
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Quote examples
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
American Writer
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
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Tim Miller
American Director
If you look at Keith Richards' hands, from the Rolling Stones, they're these gnarled, arthritic - it looks like people beat his hands with clubs. It's amazing there's so much character in his hands.
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Bill Bailey
English Comedian
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
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Joe Montana
Athlete
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.
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Bob Newhart
American Comedian
I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.
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Joe Montana
Athlete
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
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Nick Nolte
American Actor
If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
American Writer
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
Quote examples
Tim Miller
American Director
If you look at Keith Richards' hands, from the Rolling Stones, they're these gnarled, arthritic - it looks like people beat his hands with clubs. It's amazing there's so much character in his hands.
Quote examples
Bill Bailey
English Comedian
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
Quote examples
Joe Montana
Athlete
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.
Quote examples
Bob Newhart
American Comedian
I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.
Quote examples
Joe Montana
Athlete
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
Quote examples
Nick Nolte
American Actor
If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.
Quote examples
Jim Crace
English Writer
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
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