Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
{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}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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; 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 [syn: {rheumatoid arthritis}, {atrophic arthritis},
{rheumatism}]
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