Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun juvenile_rheumatoid_arthritis

1 sense of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Sense 1
Still's disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis -- (a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded)
       => rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, rheumatism -- (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)