Originally: painful disease of the joints, esp. gout. Later more widely: inflammation of a joint or joints; an instance or specific type of this…

Disease attributed to the abnormal production or flow of rheum, esp. (more fully cold rheum) the common cold; catarrh; an instance of this (now rare…

Pain or stiffness in joints, muscles, or related components of the musculoskeletal system; an attack or instance of this. Also (chiefly with…

Chiefly British and U.S. regional. Rheumatism.

colloquial. In plural. Rheumatic pains; rheumatism. Frequently with the.

= arthritis, n.

Rheumatism; = rheumatic, n. 2a. Now rare.

a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by a destructive arthritis typically involving many of the smaller joints of the body, and often having…

Predisposition to gout or other form of arthritis; arthritic diathesis.

Arthritis affecting several or many joints.

Joint disease characterized by destruction of articular cartilage, often with outgrowths of bone at the margin of the joint, usually occurring in…

Arthritis involving all of the structures of a joint; (also) arthritis involving many joints, polyarthritis.

slang. In plural with the. Rheumatism. Cf. screwmatic, n.

A condition affecting children, characterized by arthritis and ankylosis and now believed to be a form of rheumatoid arthritis.

In singular with the. Rheumatism. Chiefly English regional.

= osteoarthritis, n.

= rheumatoid arthritis n. at rheumatoid, adj. compounds.