arthritis

英 [ɑ?'θra?t?s] 美[ɑr'θra?t?s]

TEM8IELTSGRETOEFL低頻詞擴展詞匯

1. arthr- + -itis (inflammatory disease suffix).
2. => inflammation of a joint.
3. artus "a joint" => art- "a joint" => arthr-. <= arm.

arthritis 關節炎

詞根arthr, 關節，來自詞根ar, 連接。-itis, 炎癥。

arthritis: arthritis: [16] Greek árthron meant ‘joint’ (it is used in various technical terms in biology, such as arthropod ‘creature, such as an insect, with jointed limbs’). It came from the Indo-European root *ar- ‘put things together, join, fit’, which also produced Latin artus ‘limb’ (source of English article) and English arm, as well as art. The compound arthritis is a Greek formation (-itis was originally simply an adjectival suffix, so arthritis meant ‘of the joints’ – with ‘disease’ understood; its application to ‘inflammatory diseases’ is a relatively modern development); it reached English via Latin.
=> arm, art, article
arthritis (n.): "inflammation of a joint," 1540s, from medical Latin arthritis, from Greek (nosos) arthritis "(disease) of the joints," from arthritis, fem. of arthrites (adj.) "pertaining to joints" (Greek nosos is a fem. noun), from arthron "a joint" (see arm (n.1)).

1. New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.: 關節炎的新療法可能是止痛藥之外的另一種選擇。

2. Some cases of arthritis respond to a gluten-free diet.: 無麩質飲食對一些關節炎患者有療效。

3. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.: 關節炎和風濕病是會嚴重損害身體健康的主要疾病。

5. Rheumatoid arthritis has also been linked with the virus.: 風濕性關節炎也與這種病毒有關.