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Pertaining to a type of arthritis
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rheumatic
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person suffering with rheumatism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rheumatic \Rheu*mat"ic\, a. [Gr. ??? subject to a discharge or flux: cf. L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See Rheum , Rheumatism .] Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES rheumatic fever COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN fever ▪ If there has been a history of rheumatic fever in the past. ▪ They said it was rheumatic fever for two years.... ▪ She contracted rheumatic fever at the age ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French reumatique (Modern French rhumatique ), from Latin rheumaticus "troubled with rheum," from Greek rheumatikos , from rheuma "discharge from the body" (see rheum ).
Usage examples of rheumatic.
I was both tired and rheumatic, and Birdie was not so sprightly as usual.
Pilkington, the housekeeper at Gauntly Hall, was growing exceedingly old, feeble, and rheumatic: she was not equal to the work of superintending that vast mansion, and must be on the look out for a successor.
I know how old Labrish ever got it that far, and him half-crippled with the rheumatics.
Irish married woman of forty, the subject of rheumatic fever, who occasionally had a blue serous discharge or perspiration that literally flowed from her legs and body, and accompanied by a miliary eruption.
Griggs, who sat here in rheumatic ponderosity, dependent for whatever involved locomotion on the rather alarming alacrity of an impish-looking granddaughter who is elbowing her way through the throng of applicants for places and servants.
An extract made from the crushed berries by boiling them down to a thick liquor, is, when spread on linen, a capital stimulating plaster for neuralgic or rheumatic parts.
Wilson Fox, in mentioning a case of rheumatic fever, says the temperature reached 110 degrees F.
When sliced across with a knife the root of the Horse radish will exude some drops of a sweet juice which may be rubbed with advantage on rheumatic, or palsied limbs.
When this disease is developed in the course of rheumatism, it is known as rheumatic pericarditis, and is almost always associated with endocarditis.
Port Royal Volunteers, commanded by the butcher with the candlemaker as second in command, and with three sawyers, two coopers, one potman and a rheumatic pickpocket as the fighting force.
Hersman remarks that the change was probably due to increase in growth of the fibrous elements of the subcutaneous lesions about the tendons, caused by rheumatic poison.
Chronic endocarditis generally occurs in rheumatic subjects, unassociated with any acute disease, It may exist without any marked symptoms, except, perhaps, a sense of oppression and uneasiness in the chest, with palpitation.
Of course among the rheumatic patients were many who had gonorrhoeal arthritis, and Doc dosed them with quinine, for which some of them formed a genuine liking.
In chronic, abdominal affections, rheumatic fevers, gout, and syphilis, the entire system is thrown into a morbid state, the nervous system is disturbed, and wandering pains manifest themselves in different parts of the body.
The rheumatic pains that have so long troubled me, ceased within a week.