Definition of Rheumatics

1. Noun. (British colloquial) Rheumatism ¹

2. Noun. (plural of rheumatic) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rheumatics

1. rheumatic [n] - See also: rheumatic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheumatics

rheumatic chorea
rheumatic disease
rheumatic diseases
rheumatic endocarditis
rheumatic fever
rheumatic heart disease
rheumatic nodule
rheumatic pericarditis
rheumatic pneumonia
rheumatic tetany
rheumatic torticollis
rheumatic valvulitis
rheumatically
rheumatick
rheumaticky
rheumatics (current term)
rheumatid
rheumatism
rheumatism of the heart
rheumatism weed
rheumatismal
rheumatismoid
rheumatisms
rheumatiz
rheumatizes
rheumatocelis
rheumatoid
rheumatoid arteritis
rheumatoid arthritis
rheumatoid arthritis: joint manifestations

Literary usage of Rheumatics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"—Uric acid does not exist in excess in the blood of rheumatics.—Gout is not the only disease which accompanies this alteration. ..."

2. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"—Uric acid does not exist in excess in the blood of rheumatics.—Gout is not the only disease which accompanies this alteration. ..."

3. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1877)
"At first they managed very comfortably on their joint earnings, but later, owing to Dick being repeatedly laid up with rheumatics, and the wife's health ..."

4. The Knowledge of the Physician: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Boston by Richard Hughes (1884)
"RHEUMATISM AND THE ANTI-rheumatics. IN taking Rheumatism as the second peg on which to hang a bundle of medicines, I am aware that I am assuming that to be ..."

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