rheumatism : Idioms & Phrases

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desert rheumatism

  • noun an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules
    coccidiomycosis; valley fever; coccidioidomycosis.
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Inflammatory rheumatism

  • (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful.
Webster 1913

Rheumatism root

  • . (Bot.) See Twinleaf.
Webster 1913

rheumatism weed

  • noun Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
    Apocynum cannabinum; Indian hemp.
  • noun North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
    common dogbane; Apocynum androsaemifolium; spreading dogbane.
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