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Ask whether your condition may be due to a rheumatic autoimmune disease — even in the absence of abnormal blood tests.
Bring an ally to your appointments.
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Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s disease, linked to gland and organ dysfunction, are examples of prevalent rheumatic diseases.
—Johnson & Johnson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
The exact causes of rheumatic diseases are unknown.
—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
Another 300-400,000 people a year die from rheumatic heart disease, a chronic condition caused by damage from strep infection.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s disease, linked to gland and organ dysfunction, are examples of prevalent rheumatic diseases.
—Johnson & Johnson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
The exact causes of rheumatic diseases are unknown.
—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
Another 300-400,000 people a year die from rheumatic heart disease, a chronic condition caused by damage from strep infection.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rheumatic
arthritic
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But no one really cared about pitch counts in that era, which could help explain why Koufax retired in the fall of ’66 at the age of 30, having pitched his last two seasons with an arthritic condition in a left elbow that Scully once remarked looked like a comma.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
8 Sep. 2025
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Compared with Lali, who has symmetrical posture and fluid movements, Nini is like an elderly, arthritic human—crooked, rigid, languid, tense.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Rheumatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rheumatic. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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