arthritic

Example Sentences

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Vonn had retired in 2019, her body battered by repeated crashes, her right knee arthritic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

“This is like a big bon voyage to my old arthritic hip,” he told O’Brien.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

O’Neal was playing with a badly aching arthritic big toe, a sprained wrist and a handful of unlisted bangs and bruises.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

The study found that treating arthritic mice with RvT4 reduced blood vessel inflammation by re-programming macrophages -- a group of white blood cells that accumulate in the diseased vessels -- to release stored lipids.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

Esvans Harth rem ir Estraven was an old man, past seventy, crippled by an arthritic disease of the hips.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin