noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
AIDS/cancer/asthma/arthritis etc sufferers
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a support group for cancer sufferers
rheumatoid arthritis
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rheumatoid
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Gold salts are highly effective in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis , most adverse reactions being mild and reversible.
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Rim a person with rheumatoid arthritis ?
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The cervical spine in rheumatoid arthritis Needs careful assessment Rheumatoid arthritis commonly affects the cervical spine, causing several well defined deformities.
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People with progressively severe impairments, due to illness such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis , must constantly cope with new problems.
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Headaches, migraine, insomnia, epilepsy and rheumatoid arthritis are among the conditions that are susceptible to placebos.
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The only other large studies with controls examined hip fractures and rheumatoid arthritis and found odds ratios of 1.5 and 2.1.
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With diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , it is less obvious how the placebo effect works.
■ NOUN
sufferer
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Good for arthritis sufferers and they say it even stops snoring.
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He is looking forward to the new challenge of visiting arthritis sufferers in their own homes.
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Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers .
■ VERB
get
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And, also, I've got arthritis .
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Ask him to get rid of his arthritis ?
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She's seventy and she only stopped hunting last season because she's got arthritis in her wrist.
suffer
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In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis .
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Or learn that he suffers from hobbling arthritis .
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For example, the number of women suffering from arthritis is more than three times that of men.
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Jean Parmiter recently spent an afternoon with a Morden group of people suffering from arthritis .
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I suffer from chronic arthritis , but as soon as I saw her I felt better.
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Kath Manson is eighty five and suffers from severe arthritis .
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She suffered from arthritis and was largely confined to her home.
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More than 1,000,000 people in Britain suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and a further five million have osteoarthritis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bee stings have been known to alleviate the symptoms of arthritis .
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Despite the increased difficulties, trials have been carried out on the effects of homoeopathy in a chronic condition - rheumatoid arthritis .
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Her problem was arthritis and degenerative diseases of the heart.
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One of our friends with the same type of arthritis has been helped by an occupational therapist.
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Patients who have recurrent attacks of gouty arthritis may develop features closely resembling rheumatoid arthritis.
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People with progressively severe impairments, due to illness such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis , must constantly cope with new problems.
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Prophylactic therapy to avoid acute gouty arthritis should accompany the initiation of allopurinol therapy.
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We speak of some one who is stiff-necked long before they may become crippled with arthritis .