Any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues
English: rheumatism
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
rematikBahasa Indonesia
rheumatism, atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
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#16,433 of the corpus · 3 per million words · 12,613 occurrences
Noun
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
English: rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, rheumatism
Less certain link between this word and this sense.