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单词 rheumatic fever
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rheumatic fevern.

Brit. /ruːˌmatɪk ˈfiːvə/, U.S. /ruˌmædɪk ˈfivər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: rheumatic adj., fever n.1
Etymology: < rheumatic adj. + fever n.1, probably after post-classical Latin febris rheumatica (1709 or earlier).
Medicine.
Originally: any fever accompanied by pain in the joints or muscles. In later use: spec. a disorder of probable immunological origin occurring in children and young adults following group A streptococcal infection (usually of the throat), typically characterized by fever, migratory arthritis, and inflammation of the heart (often leading to damage to the mitral and aortic valves), frequently with rash, the formation of subcutaneous nodules, and chorea.
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1726 J. Floyer Comment Hist. Hippocrates i. 16 In Rheumatisms, the Chyle or Serum is made Sizey by cold Air, and this stops in the Muscles, and there is the Focus of a rheumatic Fever.
1746 W. Forster Treat. Causes Most Dis. (ed. 2) 333 Serum placed in a Spoon over a gentle Heat turns presently into a Jelly, and we are in the next Disposition to Rheumatisms, and rheumatic Fevers from this Incrassation.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. v. 97 The poor woman, whose disease was a rheumatic fever, was already much better.
1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 663 The next day I was taken ill, & by the Letter de cachet of a Rheumatic Fever sentenced me to the Bed-bastille.
1828 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. 1 440 Eruptive Rheumatic Fever of the West Indies. Dr. G. W. Stedman of Santa Cruz, has published an account of the epidemic, known by the name of Dandy Fever.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. 914 The fever usually accompanied by inflammation of the joints, and termed rheumatic fever, is a fever sui generis, and as readily distinguishable from the fever caused by inflammations, as is the fever of typhus, small-pox, or measles.
1863 Lancet 10 Oct. 415/1 Rheumatic Fever seems a more appropriate term than Acute Rheumatism, inasmuch as..the disease is now esteemed to be an essential fever, rather than a pyrexia consequent upon, and therefore indicative of, local disorder.
1915 W. Savage Rural Housing 261 Rheumatic fever is one of the common causes of heart diseases.
1956 A. Murray Let. 15 May in R. Ellison & A. Murray Trading Twelves (2000) 129 Doctor felt that it might be rheumatic fever... She seems OK so far and has had none of the after effects to date.
1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xvi. 51/2 Rheumatic fever is an immunological disorder developing after an infection by a group A β-haemolytic streptococcus.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 11/1 Her career as a society hostess was brought to an end by a severe attack of rheumatic fever when she was in her mid-twenties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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