rheumatic
pronunciation
How to pronounce rheumatic in British English:
UK [rʊ'mætɪk]
How to pronounce rheumatic in American English:
US [ruˈmætɪk]
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- Noun:
- a person suffering with rheumatism
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- Adjective:
- of or pertaining to arthritis
Word Origin
- rheumatic
- rheumatic: [14] Greek rheuma meant literally ‘flow, stream’ (it came ultimately from the same Indo-European base as produced English stream, and was a close relative of the Greek verb rhein ‘flow’, which provides the second halves of English catarrh and diarrhoea). It was used for a ‘watery discharge from the body’, and was borrowed into English (via late Latin rheuma and Old French reume) as rheum [14] in the sense ‘mucous discharge from the eyes or nose’.Pains in the joints were in former times thought to be caused by watery secretions within the body, and so towards the end of the 17th century the term rheumatism was applied to them.=> catarrh, diarrhoea, rhyme, rhythm
- rheumatic (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French reumatique (Modern French rhumatique), from Latin rheumaticus "troubled with rheum," from Greek rheumatikos, from rheuma "discharge from the body" (see rheum).
Example
- 1. Rheumatic fever is now a preventable disease .
- 2. Intern did you ever have rheumatic or scarlet fever as a child ?
- 3. 1763 Reverend edward stone of chipping norton near oxford gives dried willow bark to 50 parishioners suffering rheumatic fever .
- 4. Prevention of rheumatic fever and diagnosis and treatment of acute streptococcal pharyngitis .
- 5. Stone 's paper describes his discovery by testing on himself and 50 members of his parish that ground willow bark powder relieves fevers and rheumatic pain .