Usually means: Chronic, painful inflammation of joints.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word rheumatism:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. rheumatism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rheumatism: Merriam-Webster
  3. rheumatism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rheumatism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rheumatism: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rheumatism: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rheumatism, rheumatism: Wordnik
  8. rheumatism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rheumatism: Wiktionary
  10. rheumatism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rheumatism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rheumatism: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rheumatism: Dictionary.com
  14. rheumatism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rheumatism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rheumatism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rheumatism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rheumatism: Rhymezone
  19. rheumatism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rheumatism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rheumatism: FreeDictionary.org
  22. rheumatism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rheumatism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rheumatism: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rheumatism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. rheumatism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rheumatism: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Rheumatism: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. rheumatism: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. rheumatism: Medical dictionary
  11. Rheumatism: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rheumatism, Rheumatism, Rheumatism: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rheumatism: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rheumatism: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rheumatism: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See rheumatisms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
noun:  (pathology) Atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

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