单词 | acute articular rheumatism |
释义 | > as lemmasacute articular rheumatism 2. Pain or stiffness in joints, muscles, or related components of the musculoskeletal system; an attack or instance of this. Also (chiefly with distinguishing word): (Medicine) any of various specific diseases characterized by this, esp. (more fully acute rheumatism, acute articular rheumatism) rheumatic fever, and (more fully muscular rheumatism) myositis or fibrositis. Rheumatism was originally supposed to be caused by a flow of rheum into the joints or muscles. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > rheumatism or arthritis arthritis1543 rheum1667 rheumatism1670 rheumatiz1760 rheumatica1796 arthrosia1822 screwmatic1832 rheumatoid arthritis1859 arthritism1868 polyarthritis1868 osteoarthritis1878 panarthritis1890 screw1897 Still's disease1905 rheumatic1918 osteoarthrosis1932 RA1957 1670 Acct. Causes Distempers 11 The very best Remedy in the World against the Dropsy and the Gout; taking away all Swellings from the Belly, Thighs and Legs, and all manner of Pains, tho' fixed in the very Bones; and that in Rheumatisms when the Pains have been so cruel and intollerable as not to be born without violent Roarings and Cryings out, they have done wonders. 1688 W. Salmon Phylaxa Medicina (ed. 2) 14/1 Tartarous Diseases, as the Scurvy, Pox, Dropsy, Jaundice, Gout, Rheumatism. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 64 And Rheumatisms I send to rack the Joints. 1749 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 2) Add. 62 This Medicine [sc. James's Powder] has been found..to be most effectual in a Rheumatism. 1793 C. Smith Let. 20 Dec. (2003) 91 Being half crippled in my hands..by the Rhumatism. 1836 London Med. Gaz. 22 Oct. 117/2 ‘I have got the rheumatism,’ is a complaint we hear now and then, as applied to wandering pains. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 23 On wet Sundays, or whenever he had a touch of rheumatism, he used to read the three first chapters of Genesis. 1886 H. Eichhorst Handbk. Pract. Med. IV. x. 153 In Kiel, acute articular rheumatism is a ‘house disease’, like fibrinous pneumonia and typhoid fever, so that, for example, 728 cases occurred in 492 houses. 1910 Lancet 12 Mar. 713/2 Muscular rheumatism.—This affection is always a fibrositis. 1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 17 Feb. (1993) III. 222 If ever you have neuralgia or rheumatism or any pains of that kind take irénine. 1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. iii. 113/2 The focal lesions of acute rheumatism are usually found in close relationship to arteries. 1984 D. Parker & J. Parker New Compl. Astrologer 28 Cabbage and kale should form part of a Capricornian's diet, keeping at bay such illnesses as rheumatism. 2007 Medicine 86 123 A total of 38 patients remained symptomatic after the tenth day [of chikungunya virus infection] with chronic peripheral rheumatism, characterized by severe joint pain and multiple tenosynovitis. < as lemmas |
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