rheumatism
noun/ˈruːmətɪzəm/
/ˈruːmətɪzəm/
[uncountable]- a disease that makes the muscles and joints painful, stiff and swollen (= larger than normal)
- The pills help to relieve my rheumatism.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chronic
- get
- have
- suffer from
- …
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French rhumatisme, or via Latin from Greek rheumatismos, from rheumatizein ‘to snuffle’, from rheuma ‘stream’: the disease was originally supposed to be caused by the internal flow of “watery” humours.Definitions on the go
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