"joints" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. Noun: The joints in my fingers were sore from typing so much. Verb: The different pieces of the structure were joints together with bolts.
At his review appointment some months later, his specialist notes that he has inflamed joints and writes back to me to request a rheumatology opinion.
This is an excellent idea, though you will need to reduce it well for maximum flavour – make it while the joints are marinating, so it is ready to use the next day.
The big things just weren't big enough to lure hungry travellers from the generic service stations and drive-through takeaway joints that dot the freeways today.
Moore had a cortisone injection on Sunday in one of the back joints he strained at training last Thursday and which caused him to miss the 25-16 victoverover Wales when the Queensland reds hooker Saia Faingaa found the Welsh captain Matthew Rees such a handful.
From Newcastle's Bridge Tavern to London's Palomar, some of Britain's best trough joints are now run by ex-club promoters and DJs.
My pick: Tosca Cafe In the heart of North Beach, where poetry evenings jostle with strip joints, lies Tosca Cafe, its arched windows and long, muralled bar a beacon for everyone from North Beach bums to Francis Ford Coppola.
As the practice deepens, my chaotic thoughts and emotions, memories fond and painful, yield all manner of sensations: pain in my joints, leaps in my chest, tingling behind my neck.
When Simi begins to palpate Mary's joints, she finds her stride, spilling out technical terms as she goes: symmetrical deformity; ulnar deviation at the MCP joint; rheumatoid nodules, widespread over all joints; Z-thumb deformity; fixed flexion deformity on all fingers; swan neck deformity… The list seems endless, and Karan is impressed, needing to prompt Simi only once or twice.
Alan, Tom, the dodgy joints and I are all taking part in the Race to the Stones.
It began, perhaps, with a German physician called Nordheim, who in 1938 demonstrated that most joints in healthy people can be made to pop when pulled upon.
The street is lined with take-out soul food joints, beauty shops and cellphone stores.
