rheumatic
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7.5
- adjective
- /ruˈmætɪk/
- Specialized
:
reumático
- Since Celia's rheumatic fever, we always tried not to upset her.
- rheumatic disease
- rheumatic fever
- rheumatic pain
Examples
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Mrs. Willcox moved into that house in Leatherhead... and before she'd been in it for three months she was in bed with rheumatic fever.
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PMR is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disorder in people over the age of 50.
Academic text (2014) -
Ever since the rheumatic fever, my body temperature...
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I was five months in the hospital with rheumatic fever.
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Oh, I'm all right, still a bit rheumatic but you know, at my age...
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I tried to get back to dancing, then I collapsed with rheumatic fever.
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His medical history was negative for rheumatic heart disease and heart murmur.
Academic text (1998) -
Chronic rheumatic heart disease is the most important consequence of rheumatic fever.
Academic text (2007) -
The winter after camp, I developed rheumatic fever, another common affliction of the time.
Academic text (2011) -
Many elderly people suffer from rheumatic pain in their joints during cold weather.
Synonyms
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5.1
Having pain and stiffness in the joints
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.4
A serious disease mainly affecting children that causes joint pain and lasting heart valve damage
- Specialized
A long-term heart condition in which past fevers damage the heart valves
How Rheumatic
- Specialized
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7.5
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
rheumatic = rheumatism (transparent) = rheumat + ic
Formed from the medical noun 'rheumatism' with the regular adjective-forming suffix '-ic', so if a learner knows 'rheumatism' the adjective relation is clear.
Etymology
Rheumatic comes from the Greek root rheuma, which means 'flow'. Long ago people thought joint pain came from bad fluids flowing in the body, so rheumatic describes pain or stiffness in the joints or muscles.