Synonyms for rheumatism
ˈru məˌtɪz əmrheuma·tism

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1. rheumatismnoun

   any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues

   Synonyms:
   atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

2. rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, rheumatismnoun

   a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint

   Synonyms:
   atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

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1. • Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "rheumatism":

   rheumatic, arthritis

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How to use rheumatism in a sentence?

1. Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire:

   In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.

2. Henry Adams:

   You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

3. H. L. Mencken:

   Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.