Rheumatic vs Rheumatoid - What's the difference?
rheumatic | rheumatoid |
Resembling or relating to rheumatism.
Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.
(rare) A person suffering from rheumatism
* 1890 , The American practitioner, Volumes 9-10?
* 1911 , George Knapp Abbott, Principles and practice of hydrotherapy
* {{quote-book, 1933, George Hoyt Bigelow & Herbert Luther Lombard, Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases in Massachusetts
, passage=The rheumatics in the survey who had complete disability had had this same disability for an average of two years.}}
presenting analogies with rheumatism
As adjectives the difference between rheumatic and rheumatoid
is that rheumatic is resembling or relating to rheumatism while rheumatoid is presenting analogies with rheumatism.As a noun rheumatic
is a person suffering from rheumatism.rheumatic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* rheumatically * rheumatic feverNoun
(en noun)- It has been a clinical observation with me that the majority of chronic rheumatics are likewise the subjects of chronic constipation.
- It must, be confessed, however, that the majority of rheumatics are not able to stand such treatment.
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