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Any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues

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rheumatism

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few were starting to tell the others that the mud cured rheumatism and gout. ▪ A holiday on Exmoor in the course of that summer was dogged by her rheumatism . ▪ Albin says it was used indiscriminately as a panacea for ailments ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability. 2 (context pathology English) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is an umbrella term for conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints and/or connective tissue . The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology . The term ...

Usage examples of rheumatism.

A vial of that which is first passed in the morning, should be sent with the history of the case, as chronic rheumatism effects characteristic changes in this excretion, which clearly and unmistakably indicate the abnormal condition of the fluids of the body upon which the disease depends.

It is useful in those diseases in which the fluids of the body are abnormally acid, as in rheumatism.

The relief of the stricture by our new and painless method was followed by very great improvement in his condition, after which appropriate remedies for the rheumatism were administered, and the result was a very gratifying and satisfactory relief from his difficulty.

But most of all, Rae had not suffered a single bout of rheumatism since her discharge from Alameda Hospital.

Acute articular rheumatism implies an affection of the articulations or joints.

Acute articular rheumatism is always accompanied with more or less fever.

Sub-acute articular rheumatism is not always chronic, and may disappear in a shorter time than in the acute form.

Chronic articular rheumatism is not generally fatal, but there is danger of permanent deformities.

Hence, the utmost care should be taken against exposure of a patient recovering from scarlatina, and the same caution should be exercised during convalescence from measles, erysipelas, and rheumatism.

Pityriasis is caused by nutritive debility, and is often associated with erysipelas, rheumatism, and bronchitis.

But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable?

This feature is very serviceable in distinguishing muscular rheumatism, or myalgia, from neuralgic affections.

A case of this nature is described, the patient being a raftsman, aged seventeen, who suffered with inflammatory symptoms of the right great toe, which were followed in the next ten years by progressive involvement of all the joints of the extremities, and of the vertebrae and temporo-maxillary articulations, with accompanying signs of acute articular rheumatism.

In fact, old Doc Moggs comes around and has a few seidels of hot Tom and Jerry with us for his own rheumatism.

Articular rheumatism, in the subacute or chronic form, is frequently observed in medical practice.