rheumatism
noun
any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
rheumatisms
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pluralof rheumatism.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Rackt as I am with rheumatisms, I meet every face with a greeting like that of Balak to Balaam—“Come, curse me Jacob; and come, defy me Israel!”
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Oh, ye! who pine, in London smoke immur'd, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncur'd, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatisms, coughs, blue-devils!
From Poetic Sketches by Thomas Gent
These are commonly supposed to be typical "chronic rheumatisms."
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
A great many of the so-called chronic rheumatisms are really the result of dreads to use muscles in the proper way because for the moment something has happened to make their use painful.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The baths of Aix are very celebrated, and the town is much visited by valetudinarians: they are chiefly recommended in scorbutic humours, colds, rheumatisms, palsies, and consumptions.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney
