Definition of "rheumatics" [rheumatics]

• Rheumatism (noun)
• Plural form of rheumatic. (noun)

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• "If a clear head is worth more than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo -- if muscles with the play of health in them are worth more than those drawn up in chronic "rheumatics" -- if an eye quick to catch passing objects is better than one with vision dim and uncertain -- then God will require of us efficiency just in proportion to what he has given us."
• "'Lisbeth, who for years had suffered severely from "rheumatics," and who had made up her mind that she was to die before the "old man," was but an indifferent nurse."
• "With a sigh she put on her ordinary everyday working dress, and proceeded to get the breakfast ready, for her mother had been out late the previous night, celebrating the new arrivals in the street, and had the 'rheumatics' this morning."