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Antirheumatic vs Rheumatic - What's the difference?

antirheumatic | rheumatic |

As adjectives the difference between antirheumatic and rheumatic

is that antirheumatic is serving to prevent or counter rheumatism while rheumatic is resembling or relating to rheumatism.

As nouns the difference between antirheumatic and rheumatic

is that antirheumatic is a drug that prevents or counters rheumatism while rheumatic is (rare) a person suffering from rheumatism.

antirheumatic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to prevent or counter rheumatism.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drug that prevents or counters rheumatism.

    • rheumatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or relating to rheumatism.
  • Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.

    • Derived terms

    * rheumatically * rheumatic fever

    Related terms

    * rheumaticky * rheumatics

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A person suffering from rheumatism
  • * 1890 , The American practitioner, Volumes 9-10?
    • It has been a clinical observation with me that the majority of chronic rheumatics are likewise the subjects of chronic constipation.
  • * 1911 , George Knapp Abbott, Principles and practice of hydrotherapy
    • It must, be confessed, however, that the majority of rheumatics are not able to stand such treatment.
  • * {{quote-book, 1933, George Hoyt Bigelow & Herbert Luther Lombard, Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases in Massachusetts citation
    • , passage=The rheumatics in the survey who had complete disability had had this same disability for an average of two years.}}