Rheumatism
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autoimmune rheumatologic disease
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Scope Note
any of a variety of disorders marked by inflammation, degeneration, or metabolic derangement of the connective tissue structures of the body, especially the joints and related structures, including muscles, bursae, tendons, and fibrous tissue.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Rheumatism is the general name given to diseases which cause pain and stiffness of joints, bones, tendons or ligaments.
- Arthritis & Rheumatism is an official journal of the American College of Rheumatology.
- Rather, palindromic rheumatism is an idiopathic, periodic arthritis characterized by multiple, transient, recurring episodes of mono- or oligo-arthritis associated with tissue swelling around the involved joints.
- Rheumatic paroxysm: Rheumatism is "a disease of which inflammation and pain of the joints are prominent features" (OED, "rheumatism").
- Rheumatism is attended with loss of motion and often more or less deformity.
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