stiffness
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The disease is marked by symptoms including tremor, stiffness, slow movement, gait and balance problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
This difference in stiffness could be important because harder implants can trigger inflammatory responses when they remain in the brain for long periods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Osteoarthritis, a joint disease causing pain, stiffness and cartilage loss, found her anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
It occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy joint tissue, causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and progressive damage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The sky was almost clear, with small, fluffy bits of clouds moving across the blue, and he shrugged his shoulders to ease the stiffness.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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
And the muslins and blue ribbons will be wonderful filmy creations, as different from the Early Victorian stiffnesses as anything you can possibly imagine.
From Betty Trevor by Victor Prout
He seems to have loved the very stiffnesses of the form in which he worked.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
The youthful works of genius are generally the best, their very crudities and stiffnesses adorable.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
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
