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rheum cultorum |
rheum emodi |
rheum palmatum |
rheum rhabarbarum |
rheum rhaponticum |
rheumatic
| rheumatic aortitis
| rheumatic fever
| rheumatic heart disease
| rheumatism
| rheumatism weed
rheumatic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rheumatic has 1 sense
- rheumatic(n = noun.person) Array - a person suffering with rheumatism; Array is a kind of diseased person, sick person, sufferer
Derived form adjective rheumatic1
Adjective rheumatic has 1 sense
- rheumatic(s = adj.all) arthritic, creaky, rheumatoid, rheumy - of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" Derived forms noun rheumatic1, noun rheumatism1, noun rheumatism2
CIDE DICTIONARY
rheumatic, a. [Gr. subject to a discharge or flux: cf. L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See Rheum, Rheumatism.].
- Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day. [1913 Webster]"That rheumatic diseases do abound." [1913 Webster]
rheumatic, n.
One affected with rheumatism. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rheumatic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of, relating to, or suffering from rheumatism.
2 producing or produced by rheumatism.
--n. a person suffering from rheumatism.
--adj.
1 of, relating to, or suffering from rheumatism.
2 producing or produced by rheumatism.
--n. a person suffering from rheumatism.
Idiom
rheumatic fever a non-infectious fever with inflammation and pain in the joints.
Derivative
rheumatically adv. rheumaticky adj. colloq.
Etymology
ME f. OF reumatique or L rheumaticus f. Gk rheumatikos (as RHEUM)
THESAURUS
rheumatic
allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, cancerous, case, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, incurable, inpatient, invalid, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, shut-in, sick person, spastic, sufferer, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian
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