c. 1600, from Late Latin rheumatismus, from Greek rheumatismos, from rheumatizein "suffer from the flux," from rheuma "a discharge from the body" (see rheum). "The meaning of a disease of the joints is first recorded in 1688, because rheumatism was thought to be caused by an excessive flow of rheum into a joint thereby stretching ligaments" [Barnhart].
例文
1. I was laid up in bed with acute rheumatism .
私は急性リウマチにかかって、病気で寝ています。
2.Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
関節炎やリウマチは、身体の健康を深刻に損なう主な疾患である。
3.The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism .
ホットエンジェルこの老人は一時的にリウマチの苦しみを免れた。
4.The damp weather plays the very devil with my rheumatism .
湿った天気が私のリューマチを悪化させた。
5.The cold he caught threw back his recovery from rheumatism .