rheumatism

 

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First attested 1601, from Latin rheumatismus (“rheum”), from Ancient Greek ῥευματισμός (rheumatismós, “humour, discharge, rheum”) from ῥευματίζομαι (rheumatízomai, “I suffer from a rheum”) from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz.əm/

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• (US, dialectal, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz/^[1]

rheumatism (countable and uncountable, plural rheumatisms)

1. (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
   • 1763 June 20 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garret. A Comedy, […], London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […], published 1764, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

     And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.

   • 1874, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Alive:

     The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronic rheumatism to his chair.

2. (pathology) Atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

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