arthritis

any of several joint disorders, some autoimmune, some infectious
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q170990
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Summary

arthritis is a class of disease[1]. arthritis ranks in the top 0.051% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,417 views/month, #1 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
  • Subclass of: bone inflammation disease[4], inflammatory disease[5], arthropathy[6], musculoskeletal system symptom[7]
  • Commons category: Arthritis[8]
  • Said to be the same as: Q13037173[9]
  • ICPC 2 ID: L70[10]
  • Symptoms and signs: joint inflammation[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Arthritis[12]
  • Anatomical location: joint[13]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[18]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C2883[19]
  • Health specialty: rheumatology[20]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: salsalate[21], alpha-linolenic acid[22], meclofenamic acid[23], golimumab[24], adalimumab[25], methylprednisolone[26], abatacept[27], pregabalin[28], celecoxib[29], leflunomide[30], meloxicam[31], hydroxychloroquine[32], gabapentin[33], methotrexate[34]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_848[35], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:848[36], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001369[37]

Why It Matters

arthritis has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] arthritis is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → science/arthritis
    Harper's tag → arthritis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia britannica online id: science/arthritis"
  2. 12w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → class of disease, symptom or sign
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: arthropathy, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  3. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → bone inflammation disease, inflammatory disease, arthropathy +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0252969-artritida
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0252969-artritida, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by → antiarthritic
    Instance of → class of disease, symptom or sign
    Said to be the same as → Q13037173
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 20445, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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