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].
实用例句
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.
