polyarthritis (redirected from polyarthritis-meningitis syndrome)

polyarthritis /poly·ar·thri·tis/ (-ahr-thri´tis) inflammation of several joints.

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chronic villous polyarthritis  chronic inflammation of the synovial membrane of several joints.

polyarthritis rheuma´tica acu´ta  rheumatic fever.

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pol·y·ar·thri·tis (pl-är-thrts)

n.

Simultaneous inflammation of several joints.

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Polyarthritis

A nonspecific term for arthritis involving two or more joints, typically associated with auto-immune forms of arthritis. Symptoms usually include pain, inflammation, and/or swelling in multiple joints.

Mentioned in: Ross River Virus

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polyarthritis

[-ärthrī′tis]

an inflammation that involves more than one joint. The inflammation may migrate from one joint to another, or there may be simultaneous involvement of two or more joints.

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polyarthritis

inflammation of several joints. More common in very young animals because of the frequency of navel infection and bacteremia and the immaturity of the arthrodial tissues. See also arthritis.

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chlamydial polyarthritis

caused by Chlamydophila pecorum and characterized by joint enlargement, lameness, stiff gait, fever, conjunctivitis, a high morbidity and mortality in young animals. There are also lesions and signs of involvement of other organs, e.g. pneumonia, encephalomyelitis and interstitial focal nephritis. An important disease of feedlot lambs.

chronic villous polyarthritis

chronic inflammation of the synovial membrane of several joints.

crystal-induced polyarthritis

see gout, pseudogout.

feline chronic progressive polyarthritis

see periosteal proliferative polyarthritis (below).

Greyhound polyarthritis

an erosive joint disease of unknown etiology occurring in young Greyhounds. See greyhound polyarthritis.

immune-mediated polyarthritis

see immune-mediated arthritis.

inherited polyarthritis

a disease of young Akita dogs, in which there is sytemic illness with fever, lethargy and peripheral lymphadenopathy, as well as polyarthritis.

polyarthritis-meningitis syndrome

an immune-mediated, nonerosive polyarthritis, seen in Weimaraners and several other breeds. There is fever and spinal pain.

mycoplasmal polyarthritis

Mycoplasma hyorhinis and M. hyosynoviae cause polyarthritis in pigs, the first in suckling pigs in which there may also be a serositis, the latter more common in older growing pigs. M. agalactiae bovis causes polyarthritis in feedlot cattle, M. mycoides var. capri causes polyarthritis and serositis in goats and M. capricolum causes polyarthritis in goats and sheep.

periosteal proliferative polyarthritis

occurs in young, adult male cats as an acute, febrile illness accompanied by severe joint pain and stiffness, followed by generalized stiffness, swollen joints and akylosis. The disease is believed to be immune-mediated and associated with infection by feline leukemia virus and feline syncytium-forming virus. In a variant form, the onset is insidious and the joint changes are erosive and deforming. Called also Reiter's disease.

polyarthritis-polymyositis

an immune-mediated, nonerosive polyarthritis seen in spaniels. There is a chronic myositis with muscle atrophy.