any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues
a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint
双语例句
1. I was laid up in bed with acute rheumatism.
我染上了急性风湿，卧病在床。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
关节炎和风湿病是会严重损害身体健康的主要疾病。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.
热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The damp weather plays the very devil with my rheumatism.
潮湿的天气加重了我的风湿病.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The cold he caught threw back his recovery from rheumatism.
感冒拖延了他风湿病痊愈的时间.
来自《简明英汉词典》
用作名词 (n.)
He is a martyr to his rheumatism. 他长期受风湿病折磨。
Cold weather plays the devil with my rheumatism. 天一冷，我的风湿病就犯了。
The inhabitants are predisposed to rheumatism by the damp climate. 因气候潮湿，居民易患风湿症。
The patient is suffering from the rheumatism. 这个病人受到类风湿性关节炎的折磨。
