| Definitions | noun
- (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
- The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronic rheumatism to his chair. — w:The Dead Alive, The Dead Alive
- (pathology) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
Translations: Etymology: First attested w:1601, 1601, from rheumatismus, "rheum", from rheumatismos, from rheumatizesthai, "to suffer from rheum (which was thought to cause pain)", from rheuma "a stream, flow," from rhein "to flow," from PIE
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