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n. Any of several pathological conditions of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, or nerves, characterized by discomfort and disability.

n. Rheumatoid arthritis.

n. Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.

n. atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

n. A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.

n. The disease specifically known as acute articular rheumatism (see below)—the name including also subacute and chronic forms apparently of the same causation. The word is used with a certain and unfortunate freedom in application to joint pains of various origins and anatomical forms.

n. a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint

n. any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues

"-- Watch this, Miss Judson, and I'll wager this form of rheumatism is new to you."

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