rheumatism
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(roo′mă-tizm)

[L. rheumatismus fr. Gr. rheumatismos, flux, rheum, catarrh]
A general, imprecise, colloquial, and somewhat old-fashioned term for acute and chronic conditions marked by inflammation, muscle soreness and stiffness, and pain in joints and associated structures. It includes inflammatory arthritis (infectious, rheumatoid, gouty), arthritis due to rheumatic fever or trauma, degenerative joint disease, neurogenic arthropathy, hydroarthrosis, myositis, bursitis, and fibromyalgia.
SEE: arthritis; SEE: rheumatic fever
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(roo′mă-tizm)

[L. rheumatismus fr. Gr. rheumatismos, flux, rheum, catarrh]
A general, imprecise, colloquial, and somewhat old-fashioned term for acute and chronic conditions marked by inflammation, muscle soreness and stiffness, and pain in joints and associated structures. It includes inflammatory arthritis (infectious, rheumatoid, gouty), arthritis due to rheumatic fever or trauma, degenerative joint disease, neurogenic arthropathy, hydroarthrosis, myositis, bursitis, and fibromyalgia.
SEE: arthritis; SEE: rheumatic fever
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Rheumatism." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central Redesign, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/8/rheumatism.
Rheumatism. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/8/rheumatism. Accessed January 29, 2023.
Rheumatism. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/8/rheumatism
Rheumatism [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 January 29]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/8/rheumatism.
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