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a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint

A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.

A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.

Disorders of connective tissue, especially the joints and related structures, characterized by inflammation, degeneration, or metabolic derangement.

A painful disease of the muscles and joints, attended by swelling and stiffness.

1. Rheumatic fever; an acute, probably infectious, disease, characterized by fever, profuse perspirations, painful inflammation and swelling of one or more of the joints, and often endocarditis; called also acute articular r. 2. An indefinite term applied to various conditions characterized by pains in the muscles, joints, and fibrous tissues.

Rheumatic.

Rheumatic.

A variable, shifting inflammation or neuralgia, affecting the muscles, joints, etc.

Feverish affection with pains in bones and joints.

A painful affection of the muscles, so named from a notion that the pain was caused by rheum or humor flowing through the part affected.

Painful inflammation of the joints or fibrous tissues.

A painful affection of the muscles of the body, the fibrous tissues being in an inflammatory state.

A painful disease affecting the muscles and joints, causing swelling and stiffness.

A kind of shifting phlegmasia or neuralgia, sometimes seated in in the muscles, sometimes in the parts surrounding the joints; and at others, within them. Hence the names Muscular, Articular, and Synovial, which have been applied to it. The disease may be acute, or chronic.

A constitutional disease marked by pain in joints or muscles, usually recurrent, and often due to exposure.

A term formerly used to designate practically all pain in the joints and muscles not due to trauma or gout; a general term for the forms of disease mentioned in the sub-headings.

n. [German] A painful inflammation affecting muscles and joints of the human body, attended by local stiffness and swellings.