rheum a (roma)

[NL., rheumatism (röʻma-tizm), n. [= F.rhumatisme Sp. It. reumatismo = Pg. rheumatismo, gonorrhea, septicemia, tuberculosis, or syphilis. It often begins suddenly; a number of joints are usually attacked one after the other; the fever is irregular; there is apt to be profuse sweating; endocarditis, pericarditis, pleuritis, sudamina, erythema nodosum, hyperpyrexia, and delirium are more or le frequent features of the cases. Its dura rheum arthrosis (rö-mär-thrō'sis), n. [NL., ῥεῦμα , flux (see rheum1 ), + ἄρθρον , joint, + -osis . Cf. arthrosis .] Same as rheum arthritis . rheumatalgia (rö-ma-tal'ji-ä), n. [NL., ῥεῦμα , flux (see rheum1 ), + ἄλγος , pain.] Rheu- matic pain. rheumatic (rộ-mat'ik, formerly rö'ma-tik), a. and n. [Early mod. E. rheum a tick, reumatick, rewmatick, rumatike; The moon, the governe of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound. Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 105. 21. Having a rheum or cold; affected by rheum. By sleeping in an ayrie place you haue bene very ru matike,. [but] it is le e euil in Summer to sweate then to cough. between 15 and 35, but may occur in the first year of life or after 50. One attack does not protect, but, as in pneumonia and erysipelas, is often succeeded by others. It almost always i ues in recovery, but frequently leaves permanent cardiac lesions. Also called acute rheumatism, rheum arthritis, rheumatic fever, acute rheumatic polyar thritis.- Chronic articular rheumatism, the result, commonly, of one or more attacks of acute rheumatism, characterized by a chronic inflammation of one or more joints without profound structural alteration. - Gonorrheal rheumatism, an inflammation of the joints occurring in persons having gonorrhea. - Muscular rheumatism, a painful disorder of the muscles, characterized by local pain, especially on use of the muscles affected: same as myalgia. Progre ive chronic articular under rheumatoid ). 1. The rheumatism. Same as rheumatoid arthritis (which see, rheumatismal (rö-ma-tiz'mal), a . [ rheum a- tism + -al .] Rheumatic. rheumatism-root (rö'ma-tizm-röt), n . twinleaf. See Jefferson i a .-2. The wild yam, Dioscorea villosa . See yam . rheumatiz, rheumatize (röʻma-tiz), n . Rheu- matism. [Vulgar.] I did feel a rheumatize in my back-spauld yestreen. Scott , Pirate, vii. rhetoriouslyt, adv . [ ME.rethoriously ; rheto- rio us ( rhetor + -ious) +-ly2.] Rhetorically. 3t. Causing rheum; unhealthy; damp. Now ye all that shall thys behold or rede, Remembreth myn unconnyng simple e; Thought rethoriously peinted be not in-dede, As other han don by ther discretne e. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6611. rhetorizet (ret'or-iz), v. [ rhetor i ser , rhetori are , ῥητωρίζειν , speak rhetorically, ῥήτωρ , an orator: see rhetor.] I. in trans . To play the orator. Cotgrave . II. trans . To represent by a figure of oratory; introduce by a rhetorical device. No le e was that before his book against the Brownists to write a Letter to a prosopopoea, a certain rhetoriz'd woman whom he calls mother. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. Rheto-Romanic, a . and n. Same as Rhæto Romanic .