Relating to or characterized by joint pain, or describing something that causes joint pain.
From 'arthralgia' (joint pain) + '-ic' (relating to). This adjective form allows doctors to describe arthralgic symptoms, arthralgic conditions, or arthralgic responses to disease.
When someone has what doctors call an 'arthralgic response' to a vaccine, it means their joints ache afterward—it's actually a sign their immune system is working, because the pain comes from the body's defense response, not from damage.
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