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rheumatism


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rheumatism  \Rheu"ma*tism\,  n.  [L.  rheumatismus  rheum,  Gr  ????, 
  fr.???  to  have  or  suffer  from  a  flux,  fr  ???  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.)  See  {Twinleaf}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rheumatism 
  n  1:  any  painful  disorder  of  the  joints  or  muscles  or  connective 
  tissues 
  2:  a  chronic  autoimmune  disease  with  inflammation  of  the  joints 
  and  marked  deformities  [syn:  {rheumatoid  arthritis},  {atrophic 
  arthritis}] 




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