Español
reumatismo.
(Del lat. rheumatismus, y este del gr. ῥευματισμός; de ῥευματίζειν, tener reuma).
1. m. Med. Enfermedad que se manifiesta generalmente por inflamación de las articulaciones de las extremidades.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
English
fr.??? to have or suffer from a flux, fr. ??? rheum: cf. F. rheumatisme. See {2d Rheum}.] (Med.) 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. [1913 Webster] Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended
with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which
become swollen, hot, and very painful.
Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

