A single parasitic animal that inhabits or infects joints.
From Greek 'arthron' (joint) + 'zoon' (animal, singular). The singular form of arthrozoa, describing one joint-dwelling creature.
Doctors in the 1800s thought certain joint diseases might be caused by invisible creatures living in your knees—while they were wrong about the creatures, they were onto something about infections!
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