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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread poor thing! #158251 04/04/2006 8:09 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park my granddaughter, B, had just been diagnosed with Pauciarticular Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. the paciarticular part means pauci-(few) articluar (joints) pauci (as in paucity) has also has other meanings--like poor (with few worldly good)--pauper. paucity is not a common word (yet not a rare one either!) and its related words --are interesting.. http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE377.html my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: poor thing! #158252 04/04/2006 8:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Sorry to hear about your granddaughter's recent diagnosis with RA. On the subject of related words, the Parvovirus genus of viruses is so-named because it is one of the smallest viruses in nature. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: poor thing! #158253 04/04/2006 8:28 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Poor thing indeed, Of Troy. Does this mean that only a few of her joints are affected? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: poor thing! #158254 04/04/2006 8:33 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont sorry to hear that, Helen. best of love to her and yours. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: poor thing! #158255 04/05/2006 12:17 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 aw, that's tough, Helen - fond wishes to you both and I hope she finds some respite from the misery of joint problems. Fascinating post - thanks for getting us to look at this group of words that we take so much for granted yet which have such surprising webs of interconnections. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter no paucity of meanigs to the root word... #158256 04/05/2006 12:48 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park yes, the Pauciarticular of the name means exactly that, a few joints. unfortunately, RA is found on both sides of my sons family (my ex husband's aunts had childhood RA, and i had a 2nd cousin with the more sever form of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, (the many joint variety)(my family, including me) are plagued by arthritis-i can hardly think of a relative who doesn't have some form. there is a genetic component to RA--but there are no clear patterns--it tends to run in families, but--there seems to be an inherited weakness, that needs to be triggered--you have to have a genetic marker, Plus a trigger.. but neither the marker or trigger have been identified (for most forms of RA) -- my DIL is trying to make light of it.. (there are many far worse things to beset a child) but it is a serious disease. (but then, i am a bit of a worry wart!) still it was the official title that caught my eye.. certainly paucity is word i know,(and it was clear before i looked the term up that the pauci of pauciarticular was a relation of paucity) but i can't think of the last time i used the word paucity... i looked up the root partly because i wondered were else it was used. i figured it was latin or greek (so many medical term have latin and/or greek roots.)-- it is facinating to see all the words that share the same roots.. and the way the meaning shifts and changes. (this also helps distract me from worrying!) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: no paucity of meanings to the root word... #158257 04/05/2006 1:09 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Quote: it is facinating to see all the words that share the same roots.. and the way the meaning shifts and changes. "Nam semper pauperes habetis vobiscum ..."? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: no paucity of meanings to the root word... #158258 04/05/2006 10:55 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Si nummus loquitur, pauper tacet, hoc bene scitur. 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