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RHEUMATIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person suffering with rheumatism
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rheumatic" is a kind of...):
diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)
Derivation:
rheumatic (of or pertaining to arthritis)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to arthritis
Example:
rheumy with age and grief
Synonyms:
arthritic; creaky; rheumatic; rheumatoid; rheumy
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Derivation:
rheumatic (a person suffering with rheumatism)
rheumatism (any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues)
rheumatism (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)
Context examples:
Poor old John, I have a great regard for him; he was clerk to my poor father twenty-seven years; and now, poor old man, he is bed-ridden, and very poorly with the rheumatic gout in his joints—I must go and see him to-day; and so will Jane, I am sure, if she gets out at all.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She had had difficulties of every sort to contend with, and in addition to these distresses had been afflicted with a severe rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her legs, had made her for the present a cripple.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The backward flow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium, owing to insufficiency of the mitral valve; it may be acute or chronic, usually due to mitral valve prolapse, rheumatic heart disease or a complication of cardiac dilatation.
(Mitral Valve Regurgitation, NCI Thesaurus)
“Mr. Wickfield is unwell in bed, sir, of a rheumatic fever,” he returned; “but Miss Wickfield, I have no doubt, will be happy to see old friends. Will you walk in, sir?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“He's at home, sir,” returned Peggotty, “but he's bad abed with the rheumatics.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was too rheumatic to be shaken hands with, but he begged me to shake the tassel on the top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was not much surprised to hear from her that she had engaged to find a lodging in the neighbourhood for Mrs. Heep, whose rheumatic complaint required change of air, and who would be charmed to have it in such company.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But Mrs. Heep had asked permission to bring herself and her knitting near the fire, in that room; on pretence of its having an aspect more favourable for her rheumatics, as the wind then was, than the drawing-room or dining-parlour.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
