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STILL'S DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded
Synonyms:
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; Still's disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Still's disease" is a kind of...):
atrophic arthritis; rheumatism; rheumatoid arthritis (a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint)