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rheumatism Noun any painful disorder of joints, muscles, or connective tissue [Greek rheuma a flow] rheumatism any disorder of the connective tissue structures of the body, especially those in the back or the extremities, characterized by pain or stiffness. — rheumatic, adj. See also: Disease and Illness
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I had the twinges of rheumatism unceasingly during three years, but the last one departed after a fortnight's bathing there, and I have never had one since. And one day when an old lady with rheumatism came to see the Doctor, she sat on the hedgehog who was sleeping on the sofa and never came to see him any more, but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor. Conversationally they were a spent force after they had asked Mr Williams how his rheumatism was. |
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