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单词 rheumatic
释义

rheumatic

/rʊˈmatɪk /
adjective
1Relating to or caused by rheumatism: rheumatic pains...
  • It seems probable that the mortality from rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease has decreased since the turn of the century.
  • She had a history of rheumatic fever at age 9 with subsequent development of rheumatic heart disease.
  • In April 1983, a 71-year-old woman with a history of rheumatic heart disease, aortic insufficiency, and bacterial endocarditis was referred for diffuse lymphadenopathy.
1.1(Of a person or part of the body) affected by rheumatism: a rheumatic grandfather rheumatic joints...
  • Nearly two decades after declaring the year 1984 as the year of the rheumatic child, infections due to GAS are still prevalent in India.
  • Instead, it was claimed that aspirin was ‘discovered’ by an ‘Aryan’ scientist, Felix Hoffman, to alleviate the sufferings of his rheumatic father.
  • The discovery of aspirin is customarily said to have resulted from Felix Hoffmann's rheumatic father encouraging his son to produce a medicine devoid of the unpleasant effects of sodium salicylate.
noun
A person affected by rheumatism: a sickly rheumatic...
  • The arthritic and rheumatic used to be lowered into the waters that bubble out of the Peak District's limestone at a constant 27.5C.

Derivatives

rheumatically

adverb

rheumaticky

/rʊˈmatɪki/ adjective (informal) ...
  • It helps to relieve nervous tension, certain types of neuralgia and rheumaticky pains.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally referring to infection characterized by rheum): from Old French reumatique, or via Latin from Greek rheumatikos, from rheuma 'bodily humour, flow' (see rheum).

Rhymes

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