Historical umbrella for painful musculoskeletal disorders, including conditions now separated as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. It is not a single modern pathological diagnosis.
An inflammatory arthritis associated with deposition of urate crystals in anatomical joints. Historical descriptions of podagra require interpretation rather than automatic assignment of every ancient patient to this modern category. [ref]
A crystalline urate deposit involved in the inflammatory mechanism of gout. A historical description of pain does not by itself demonstrate such deposits. [ref]
Gout affecting the foot, particularly its big toe. The ancient word is retained in historical accounts of gout.

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