rheumatism
(roo′mă-tizm)
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[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, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/all/rheumatism.
Rheumatism. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/all/rheumatism. Accessed December 9, 2024.
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/all/rheumatism
Rheumatism [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 December 09]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767179/all/rheumatism.
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