antiarthritic

[ an-tee-ahr-thrit-ik, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a medicine or therapy that relieves the symptoms of arthritis.

noun

1. a remedy or treatment for arthritis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antiarthritic¹

anti- + arthritic

Example Sentences

Boswellic acids have anti-inflammatory and antiarthritic effects, so that they are finding pharmacological use in both East and West.

From Scientific American

Early this year, Cyanamid finally brought suit against Fox and Sharff for $5,000,000 apiece, charging that the two chemists had delivered to at least six Italian companies formulas and cultures for three Cyanamid-developed antibiotics and one antiarthritic steroid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dramatically Kefauver's staff presented a chart showing that the Schering Corp. sold bottles containing 100 tablets of prednisolone, an antiarthritic drug, to druggists for $17.90, although the cost of buying the drug from another drug manufacturer and bottling it came to only $1.57.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pessin and Tiber Greenwalt announced a new antiarthritic serum that can be extracted at any hospital from discarded afterbirths, i.e., placenta and umbilical cords.

From Time Magazine Archive