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Definition of Rheumatic fever
1. Noun. A severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves.
Definition of Rheumatic fever
1. Noun. an inflammation of the joints and the heart following a respiratory infection with streptococcus ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Rheumatic fever
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheumatic Fever
Literary usage of Rheumatic fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"ACUTE heart block occurring in patients during the course of rheumatic fever has
been reported by several writers, most recently by Christen Lundsgaard,1 of ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"rheumatic fever accounts for close on half the cases of mitral stenosis, to which
a definite cause can be assigned. Of 150 cases of pure mitral stenosis, ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"HOMER F. SWIFT PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL rheumatic fever Etiology—An Entity as Definite
as Any of the Infectious Diseases. Bacteriology—Organisms Found to be ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1905)
"In 1903 in England and Wales 1812 deaths were due to rheumatic fever (Tatham).
... In Norway, where ca-ses of rheumatic fever are notified, there were for ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"In the Registrar General's report for England and Wales for 1909 there were 1970
deaths from the disease, but rheumatic fever has a long arm and n'o small ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Now if we assume that the occasion of an attack of rheumatic fever is chill—that
is to ... Is rheumatic fever one of those cases whore disorder of the heat- ..."
7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1869)
"The authors are desirous of bringing under the notice of the profession a few
more cases of rheumatic fever which have been treated by mint water, or, ..."