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5 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)

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rheumatism
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rheumatism

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Definition:
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.
Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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1. (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
2. (pathology) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
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eleven years ago, I was disturbed by an attack of rheumatism. I don't get enough exercise. I have no time for loafing.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, pp.44-5 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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“[...] Jamie, why on earth are you carrying a dried mole’s foot in your sporran?”
“Against rheumatism, of course.”

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Well, bless her heart, she had lumbago, and she had rheumatism, too, and she did take a little whiskey for it.

Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.76 (2004)
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Cain’t make my fingers go that fast now. It’s the rheumatiz.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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