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rheumatisms

rheumatisms is the plural of rheumatism.

Meaning of rheumatism

Noun

rheumatism (countable and uncountable, plural rheumatisms)

  1. Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
    • 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.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
  2. Atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

Questions about rheumatisms

What is rheumatisms the plural of?
Rheumatisms is the plural of rheumatism.

Words near rheumatisms in the dictionary

  1. rheumatise
  2. rheumatism
  3. rheumatism root
  4. rheumatismal
  5. rheumatismoid
  6. rheumatisms
  7. rheumatiz
  8. rheumatize
  9. rheumatized
  10. rheumatizes
  11. rheumatogenic

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