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Preferred term

Osteoarthritis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Arthritides, Degenerative
  • Arthritis, Degenerative
  • Degenerative Arthritides
  • Degenerative Arthritis
  • Osteoarthroses
  • Osteoarthrosis

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2013; for Arthrosis use Joint Diseases 2017-2019

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • arthrosis
  • arthrosis non specificata
  • artroosi
  • määrittämätön nivelrikko
  • nivelkuluma
  • nivelrappeuma
  • osteoarthritis
  • osteoartriitti
  • Swedish

  • Degenerativ artrit
  • Degenerativ ledsjukdom
  • Osteoarthrosis Deformans

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010003

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