01 n. A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extendi…
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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.