Inflammation of the hip joint, often causing pain and reduced movement.
From Latin 'coxa' (hip) and Greek 'arthron' (joint) with '-itis' (inflammation), a standard medical term for hip joint inflammation that emerged in the 19th century.
Hip arthritis was particularly common in the 1800s because of heavy labor and industrial work—'coxarthritis' is the precise medical term that allowed doctors to distinguish hip inflammation from similar conditions in other joints.
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