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Veratrine :: Veratrine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina..

Blear-eyed :: Blear-eyed (a.) Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.

Enrheum :: Enrheum (v. i.) To contract a rheum.

Pieplant :: Pieplant (n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb..

Blear :: Blear (v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.

Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.

Rheumatic :: Rheumatic (a.) Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic..

Chest Founder :: Chest founder () A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration..

Lumbago :: Lumbago (n.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

Podalgia :: Podalgia (n.) pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc..

Rheum :: Rheum (n.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose..

Salicylic :: Salicylic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid..

Node :: Node (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint..

Eczema :: Eczema (n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum..

Gonorrhoeal :: Gonorrhoeal (a.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism..

Rheumatismal :: Rheumatismal (a.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.

Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine..

Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..

Pleurodynia :: Pleurodynia (n.) A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism..

Rheumic :: Rheumic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum..

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