单词 | polymyalgia |
释义 | > as lemmaspolymyalgia polymyalgia n. Brit. /ˌpɒlɪmʌɪˈaldʒ(ɪ)ə/ , U.S. /ˌpɑliˌmaɪˈældʒ(i)ə/ Medicine pain in several or many muscles; spec. (more fully polymyalgia rheumatica) a connective tissue disorder chiefly affecting the middle-aged and elderly, in which there is pain and stiffness of muscles, esp. of the shoulder and pelvic girdles, often occurring in association with temporal arteritis.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > other muscular disorders laxity1528 myalgia1860 parelectronomy1877 mounding1891 sunburn1891 neuromyositis1899 polymyalgia rheumatica1933 amyotonia1969 1933 Lancet 24 June 1338/1 In ‘polymyalgia’ and polyarthritis of various kinds it is exceedingly common to meet with tendonitis. 1957 H. S. Barber in Ann. Rheumatic Dis. 16 237/2 (1) A condition characterized by widespread muscular pains without arthritis but accompanied by a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate and occasional pyrexia is described. (2) The relationship to rheumatoid disease is discussed and it is concluded that this is probably a clinical entity within the rheumatic group of diseases. (3) It is proposed to term the syndrome ‘polymyalgia rheumatica’. 1971 Boyle & Buchanan Clin. Rheumatol. xvi. 434/2 Polymyalgia rheumatica..affects subjects in the later years of life, the average age of onset being the late sixties. 1998 Postgrad. Med. Jrnl. 74 170 Giant cell arteritis commonly presents with headache, polymyalgia, and visual signs and symptoms. < as lemmas |
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