rheumatic

Oh what's that, and why do I need to warn them about that and not rheumatic fever...

People can get rheumatic heart fever from a simple strep infection.

SIP, for example, plus rheumatic sandbox rules has made coding on OS X very unpleasant and limited.

I fight nasty withdrawal symptoms like severe headache, fatigue, and rheumatic pains right now after not drinking coffee for two days.

Without enough of it, the immune system went haywire, and I was experiencing something akin to severe acute rheumatic arthritis.

Effectively, I developed a full-blown chronic rheumatic illness.

James Joyce said"To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic"His daughter had mental health issues.

If the only whales that thus sank were old, meagre, and broken-hearted creatures, their pads of lard diminished and all their bones heavy and rheumatic; then you might with some reason assert that this sinking is caused by an uncommon specific gravity in the fish so sinking, consequent upon this absence of buoyant matter in him. But it is not so.

The triggers involved infections, malignancy, rheumatic disorders, etc.

Strep throat is the classic example I can think of from when I and my siblings got that in the '70s ... of course, although I don't know if it was realized by then, giving an antibiotic for it is mostly prophylactic, to avoid rheumatic fever.