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Definition of Rheumatism

1. Noun. Any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues.

2. Noun. A chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint.

Definition of Rheumatism

1. n. 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.

Definition of Rheumatism

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

2. Noun. (pathology) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rheumatism

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Medical Definition of Rheumatism

1. A general disease characterised 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, acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. Rheumatism root. See Twinleaf. Origin: L. Rheumatismus rheum, Gr, fr. To have or suffer from a flux, fr. Rheum: cf. F. Rheumatisme. See 2d Rheum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheumatism

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 rheumatid rheumatism (current term) rheumatism of the heart rheumatism weed rheumatismal rheumatismoid

rheumatisms rheumatiz rheumatizes rheumatocelis rheumatoid rheumatoid arteritis rheumatoid arthritis rheumatoid arthritis: joint manifestations rheumatoid disease rheumatoid factor

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