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Rheumatism

noun

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

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. Synonyms: atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.

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... it is necessary to clothe dogs, morning and evening especially: otherwise they soon die of rheumatism and loin disease. ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... feathers, eggs, and egg-shells. But it takes a small fortune to get started in that business, as eggs are twenty dollars each, and the birds are sometimes five hundred dollars apiece. And they are subject to rheumatism and a dozen other diseases, and a blow from a kicking bird will kill one. I concluded to let that dream be unrealized. Did you ever hear of the nervous invalid who was told by his physician to buy a Barbary ostrich and imitate him exactly for three months? It was a capital story. ...

— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn

... dull and cold, and wood went fast. His mother bought a load with her own earnings, but it seemed to melt away, and was nearly gone, before James remembered that he was to get the next. Mrs. Snow was feeble and lame with rheumatism, and unable to work as she had done, so James had to put down the books, and ...

— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... extravagant theories, Themison possessed skill in practice. He was the first physician to describe rheumatism, and he also is thought to have been the pioneer in the medicinal use of leeches. A book on elephantiasis ascribed to him is not definitely known to be authentic. It is worthy of note that he was anxious ...

— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

... various. On some they are seen in the bloated flesh and reddened eyes. Others grow pale, and their skin takes on a dead and ashen hue. With some the whole nervous system becomes shattered; while with others organic derangements, gout, rheumatism and kindred evils attend the assimilation of ...

— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur

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