stiffness
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It occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy joint tissue, causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and progressive damage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Catcher Will Smith did not play Sunday because of neck stiffness, despite Roberts predicting the catcher would return for the series finale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
In setting out Jonathan’s defense, one of the filing’s most striking assertions is that Isak suffered from bilateral gonarthrosis in both knees, a degenerative joint condition that causes cartilage wear, pain, stiffness and reduced mobility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
While cerebral palsy is not degenerative, as Vicky ages she experiences increased stiffness, fatigue and secondary health challenges.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Back home, it always takes a while for her morning stiffness to wear off.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
Increasingly it was more difficult to fight the aches and stiffnesses which tried to keep her in bed in the morning—not that they ever succeeded.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The youthful works of genius are generally the best, their very crudities and stiffnesses adorable.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
And I felt very sorry for Carette, and did not wonder so much now at the little stiffnesses of manner I had noticed in her the last time we met.
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
He seems to have loved the very stiffnesses of the form in which he worked.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint- stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here,—yes, here!
From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith
