rheumatologyn.
/ˌruːməˈtɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌruməˈtɑlədʒi/ Medicine.
The branch of medicine that deals with rheumatism and rheumatic diseases.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > branches dealing with specific diseases
pyretology1665
helminthology1813
syphilography1837
syphilidology1849
syphilology1854
herpetology1857
typhlology1872
inebriism1886
phthisiology1893
venereology1894
phthisiotherapeutics1899
malariology1925
rheumatology1936
bariatrics1963
1936 Q. Bull. Health Org. 5 271 In Hungary..instruction is given by a lecturer in rheumatology (this is the only university chair of this subject in Europe).
1949 J. L. Hollander Comroe's Arthritis (ed. 4) i. 15 Rheumatology is the study of the Rheumatic Diseases, including arthritis, rheumatic fever, fibrositis, neuralgia, myositis, bursitis, gout, and other conditions producing somatic pain, stiffness and soreness.
1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 June 27/1 Dr. C. S. Man, a Taiwanese physician completing his post-graduate training in rheumatology and physical medicine in Canada.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Feb. (Week in Review section) 14/4 The writer, a professor of medicine at N.Y.U. School of Medicine, is in private practice and specializes in cardioprevention, internal medicine and rheumatology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1936