a disease that makes the muscles and joints painful, stiff and swollen (= larger than normal) 风湿（病） The pills help to relieve my rheumatism. 这些药有助于减轻我的风湿病痛。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chronic
- get
- have
- suffer from
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Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French rhumatisme, or via Latin from Greek rheumatismos, from rheumatizein ‘to snuffle’, from rheuma ‘stream’: the disease was originally supposed to be caused by the internal flow of “watery” humours.