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ankylosing spondylitis
noun(ankylosing spondylitis)
a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the spine and sacroiliac joints and often other joints (as of the shoulder) and that is marked by pain and stiffness —called also Marie-Strümpell disease, rheumatoid spondylitis

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