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Posted By: osteoarthritides - you're correct on 2007-10-10
In Reply to: Osteoarthritides versus osteoarthritis when it is plural! - paintyper

Subject: Medical Dictionary Online has

I've never had used the word myself, but when it passed my medical spellchecker, I went searching...

Osteoarthritides:
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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New home for online medical dictionary
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Levothroid or levothyroxine are the two medications. Levothyroid (per http://www.online-medical-dic
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Fluctuance: Taken from Stedman's Medical dictionary
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The American Heritage� Medical Dictionary
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heloma molle per Dorlands Medical Dictionary. nm
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Lloyd's sign. Look in medical dictionary under sign. NM
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