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nd muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart. Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

Of or pertaining to rheumatism.

Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

he nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

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.

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.

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

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

Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day. That rheumatic diseases do abound. Shak.

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

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.