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elopment of certain skin deseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and hipretism. Piffard.

gh fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

ies up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.

Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

Ischial. [R.] Ischiadic passion or disease (Med.), a rheumatic or neuralgic affection of some part about the hip joint; -- called also sciatica.

A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

ish resinous juice used for marking cotton cloth, and an oil prepared from it is used for rheumatism.

Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

taining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum). [Obsoles.]

The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceæ.

crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid.

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. Shak.

A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.

It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.