Rheumatism /(?)/
Rheu·ma·tism
Rheumatism
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. (Med.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Inflammatory rheumatism
- acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful.
- Rheumatism root
- See Twinleaf.