Synonyms:
rheumatism
Meaning: any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues
Usage examples
I heard your mother say to-day that she really believed the cat had the rheumatism.
Toby was still a vigorous man save when that bane of the woodsman, rheumatism, laid him by the heels.
His body, indeed, seems to have been made up of the bad points of both parents: he had his rheumatism from his father.
Damp is exceedingly injurious to dogs, and is very likely to produce diseased lungs, rheumatism, and lameness in the shoulder and limbs.
His shuffling feet, in their flapping old carpet slippers, forgot their rheumatism, and his shoulders dropped the weight of their seventy years.
Towards the end of her life, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which often deprived her of the use of her limbs.
Next to a hare lip, this is the safest protection for a travelling young girl that I know of; it has, however, the one objection that all the old ladies on the train are likely to tell you what they think of Katherine Fullerton Gerould, or their rheumatism.
Old Simon's rheumatism might be bad and his eyesight worse; there would be no one to go and read to him, and comfort him with little porringers of broth and good red flannel: or if there was, it would be a stranger, and the old man would watch in vain for her.