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Preferred term

Osteoarthritis, Knee  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Osteoarthritis of Knee
  • Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Scope note

  • Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)

History note

  • 99

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • arthrosis genu
  • gonarthrosis
  • gonarthrosis non specificata
  • gonartroosi
  • määrittämätön polvinivelrikko
  • polven artroosi
  • polven kuluma
  • polven nivelrappeuma
  • polven osteoartriitti
  • polviartroosi
  • polvinivelen artroosi
  • polvinivelen kuluma
  • polvinivelrikko
  • Swedish

  • Gonartros
  • Knäledsartros

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020370

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