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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Rheumatism

/ro͞om'-ət-ĭzˌ-əm/ · Rheu·ma·tism · IPA /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz/
01 n. A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extendi…
  1. 1.
    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.