Joint stiffness often accompanies joint pain and/or swelling. Depending on the cause of joint stiffness, joint redness, tenderness, warmth, tingling, or numbness of an affected area of the body may be present.Joint stiffness can be caused by injury or disease of the joint and is a common finding in the arthritis conditions.ometimes injuries or inflammation of the adjacent areas, such as bursae, can cause pain that may limit the movement of a joint and be perceived as joint stiffness. Joint pain is also referred to as arthralgia.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Arid. A region is arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life. Environments subject to arid climates tend to lack vegetation and are called xeric or desertic.
A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation. About one third of the land surface of the world is arid or semi-arid.n English before the 20th century, desert was often used in the sense of unpopulated area, without specific reference to aridity; but today the word is most often used in its climate-science sense (an area of low precipitation).