Shak.
Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.
Rheu*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; subject to a discharge or flux: cf.
L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See Rheum, Rheumatism.] 1. Derived from,
or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) 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.
Rheu*mat"ic, n. One affected with rheumatism.
Rheu"ma*tism (?), n. [L. rheumatismus rheum, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;,
fr.&?;&?;&?; to have or suffer from a flux, fr. &?;&?;&?; rheum: cf. F.
rheumatisme. See 2d Rheum.] (Med.) 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.
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.
Rheu`ma*tis"mal (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
Rheu`ma*tis"moid (?), a. [Rheumatism + -oid.] (Med.) Of or resembling
rheum or rheumatism.
Rheum"ic (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum.
Rheumic diathesis. See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.
||Rheu"mi*des (?), n. pl. [NL. See Rheum.] (Med.) The class of skin
||disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.
Rheum"y (?), a. Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing,
rheum; affected with rheum.
His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers.
Dryden.
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness.
Shak.
Rhig"o*lene (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; cold + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) A
mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and
cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is
used as a refregerant.