Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AR-THRI'TIS
AR-THRIT'IC, or AR-THRIT'IC-ALAR-THRO'DI-A
AR-THRI'TIS, n. [Gr. αρθριτις, from αρθρον, a joint.]
In a general sense, any painful disease of joints; but more particularly the gout, an hereditary, intermitting disease, usually affecting the small joints; sometimes the stomach; any inflammation of the joints. – Coxe. Quincy.
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