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| disorder of the muscular or tendinous attachment to bone. |
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| a bony growth attached to a ligament. It is found between adjacent vertebrae in ankylosing spondylitis. |
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| an elastic pulpy mass lying in the center of each intervertebral fibrocartilage and regarded as a remnant of the notochord |
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| Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) |
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| a usually chronic disease that is considered an autoimmune disease and is characterized especially by pain, stiffness, inflammation, swelling, and sometimes destruction of joints |
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| inflammation of a synovial membrane usually with pain and swelling of the joint |
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| productive of or effecting lysis (as of cells) |
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| Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) |
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| Rheumatiod arthritis of the spine. |
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| A ring of fibrous or fibrocartilaginous tissue (as of an intervertebral disk). |
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| an outgrowth or enlargement: as a : a natural and normal appendage or development b : an abnormal outgrowth |
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| a spinal column in the advanced stage of ankylosing spondylitis especially as observed in an X-ray with ossified layers at the margins of the vertebrae giving the whole an appearance of a stick of bamboo |
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| may be caused by trauma that penetrates the joint capsule, introducing infectious agents and resulting in an infectious arthritis, or injures articular cartilage or soft tissues supporting the joint. |
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| the action or process of resorbing something |
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