Glossary for Psoriatic Arthritis

• Ankylosing Spondylitis: Inflammation of spinal joints similar to rheumatoid arthritis.
• Arthritis: General name for any type of joint inflammation, but often means age-related osteoarthritis.
• Arthritis pain: Arthritis is inflammation of one or more joints, which results in pain, swelling, stiffness, and limited movement.
• Autoimmune diseases: A group of disorders in which the primary cause is the an inflammatory reaction caused by the body's own immune system attacking tissues
• Dactylitis: Sausage shaped swelling of the fingers and the toes.
• Gout: Painful joints, most commonly the big toe.
• Joint pain: Pain affecting the joints
• Joint swelling: One or more swollen joints
• Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is a chronic condition characterised by mechanical disrturbances due to degradation of joints. It is the most common form of arthritis, and the leading cause of chronic disability.
• Podagra: A condition which is characterized by a gout like pain in the toe
• Psoriasis: Chronic skin rash condition, usually red or silver and blistery.
• Psoriasis arthropathica: Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic disease characterized by inflammation of the skin (psoriasis) and joints (arthritis). Psoriatic arthritis is said to be a seronegative spondyloarthropathy and therefore occurs more commonly in patients with tissue type HLA-B27 Syndrome in which psoriasis is associated with arthritis, often involving inflammation in terminal interphalangeal joints. A rheumatoid factor is not usually present in the sera of affected individuals.
• Reactive arthritis: The inflammation of a joint
• Reiter’s syndrome: A form of reactive arthritis characterized by arthritis, urethritis, conjunctivitis and skin lesions.
• Rheumatic conditions: Any condition that affects ones joints
• Rheumatoid arthritis: Autoimmune form of arthritis usually in teens or young adults.
• Seronegative Arthritis: Classification given to the group of joint conditions with similar features to rheumatoid arthritis, but affecting different joints and lacking the specific autoantibodies used to identify rheumatoid arthritis
• Seronegative spondyloarthropathy: Spondyloarthropathy that is negative to rheumatoid facotr
• Spondylitis: Inflammation of one or multiple bony vertebrae of the spine

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