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Webster 1913 Edition


Rheumatism

Rheu′ma-tism

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Noun.
[L.
rheumatismus
rheum, Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], fr.[GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] to have or suffer from a flux, fr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] rheum: cf. F.
rheumatisme
. See
2d Rheum
.]
(Med.)
A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
Inflammatory rheumatism
(Med.)
,
acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful.
Rheumatism root
.
(Bot.)

Webster 1828 Edition


Rheumatism

RHEU'MATISM

,
Noun.
[L. rheumatismus; Gr. from a watery humor, from to flow; the ancients supposing the disease to proceed from a defluxion of humors.]
A painful disease affecting muscles and joints of the human body, chiefly the larger joints, as the hips, knees, shoulders, &c.

Definition 2024


rheumatism

rheumatism

English

Noun

rheumatism (countable and uncountable, plural rheumatisms)

  1. (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
  2. (pathology) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

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