How to Use rheumatic in a Sentence

rheumatic

adjective

• And Al-Zubaidi, who suffers from rheumatic heart disease, was struggling to obtain her heart medicine.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
• He was diagnosed with a rheumatic heart as a child and given large drug doses as a result, which turned into a dependency.
  — Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2020
• Horizon, which is based in Ireland, sells orphan drugs, which are medications for rare diseases, and drugs to treat rheumatic diseases.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
• The company sells orphan drugs, which are medications for rare diseases, and drugs to treat rheumatic diseases.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• Polio can cause paralysis that comes on years after the virus has left the body, and strep throat can lead to rheumatic heart disease after the bacterial invasion subsides.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020
• Thousands of Kenyans have heart valves scarred by rheumatic heart disease, which hardly exists in wealthy countries with ready access to antibiotics but is common in poor nations.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Six women between the ages of 36 to 61 with stable rheumatic diseases developed herpes zoster (or HZ) infection.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• Everybody who lived there became rheumatic, had chronic bronchitis and gout.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• In the 1980s, before the days of easy and cheap genomics, blood samples were taken with consent to analyze the unusually high levels of rheumatic disease in the Nuu-chah-nulth people of the Pacific Northwest of Canada.
  — Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• Symptoms of heart valve damage often don’t appear until many years after recovery from rheumatic fever.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
• The disease is mostly a relic of the past in rich and middle-income countries, where pediatricians quickly treat strep throat and rheumatic fever in children, which causes the joint pain once called childhood rheumatism.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 29 May 2017
• For the past few weeks, Trump has encouraged the use of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, which has been used to prevent malaria and treat rheumatic diseases but has shown promise in early evidence in fighting the coronavirus.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2020
• Its narrator, Marian Leatherby, is ninety-two years old, gummy, rheumatic, gray-bearded, and deaf.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• The desire to help others was informed by her family's experiences — the early death of her father who had rheumatic heart disease and the survival of her brother, who was born premature and weighed a little over 2 pounds.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2021
• The water is said to have therapeutic effects on the metabolism, heart function, rheumatic conditions, and diseases of the nervous system—or, in other words, many of the afflictions of modern life.
  — Ann Abel, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2019
• Plus, the swimmers who suffered from rheumatic diseases like arthritis or fibromyalgia reported pain relief.
  — Brianna Randall, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
• Eye boogers are primarily a combination of mucus, tears, and skin cells known as rheum and are scientifically termed rheumatic.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
• There, on a rocky, north-pointing finger of the Breton coast, rheumatic patients could come to be treated with seawater rich in algae, which is packed with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, including iodine.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Psoriasis does cause inflammation in the body, which may explain why people with psoriasis, like other rheumatic disorders, are at higher risk for heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2023
• Vasculitis can occur alone or in conjunction with other rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or scleroderma.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• For example, a group of patients in New Zealand were repeatedly missing their monthly antibiotic injections for rheumatic heart disease.
  — Amy Baxter, The Conversation, 11 June 2021
• Scleroderma is a rare, autoimmune connective tissue and rheumatic disease that primarily causes inflammation in the skin, and can lead to inflammation in other parts of the body, according to the National Institutes of Health.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• That connection was strengthened by immunologist Madeleine Cunningham, a rheumatic fever expert from the University of Oklahoma.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• And, according to the study, each person who experienced this reaction had preexisting mild cases of autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• People with rheumatic diseases are typically more susceptible to infections because their medications suppress the immune system.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
• And Al-Zubaidi, who suffers from rheumatic heart disease, was struggling to obtain her heart medicine.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
• He was diagnosed with a rheumatic heart as a child and given large drug doses as a result, which turned into a dependency.
  — Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2020
• Horizon, which is based in Ireland, sells orphan drugs, which are medications for rare diseases, and drugs to treat rheumatic diseases.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
• The company sells orphan drugs, which are medications for rare diseases, and drugs to treat rheumatic diseases.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• Polio can cause paralysis that comes on years after the virus has left the body, and strep throat can lead to rheumatic heart disease after the bacterial invasion subsides.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024