MCQ IN MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Although Alfred Baring Garrod was the physician who introduced the term Rheumatoid Arthritis, it was the French medical student Augustin-Jacob Landre-Beauvais who firstly described the newly appeared type of arthritis.

Detailed explanation-2: -It wasn’t until the late 16th century that Guillaume de Baillou, the father of rheumatology, first used the term “rheumatism” to refer to joint ailments.

Detailed explanation-3: -The word “rheumatoid” is derived from the Greek “rheuma, ‘’ meaning that which flows, and the suffix “oid, ‘’ meaning like or in the form of. This root is used to denote “any defluxion of thin humor, ‘’ as in diarrhea and catarrh. “Arthritis” stems from “arthros, ‘’ meaning joint, and it is suggesting inflam-mation.