Rheumatism

[Sarah]

A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple,local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, butalso extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever,and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot,and very painful.-- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

[Sarah]

What you tell the doctor you have when you go to a clinic and try and score some Oxycontin or Lortab.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

a medical condition that causes stiffness and pain in the joints (= places where two bones are connected) or muscles of the body: