Rheumatic Fever Definition

ro͝o-mătĭk
noun
An acute or chronic inflammatory disease usually induced by a preceding infection with certain hemolytic streptococci, characterized variously by fever, pain and swelling of the joints, inflammation of the heart, etc., and typically occurring in children and young adults.
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Rheumatic Fever Sentence Examples

  • The mode of their administration in rheumatic fever is of the utmost importance.

  • The acid and its salts are antipyretic and were used in Germany instead of salicylates in rheumatic fever.

  • He died suddenly of rheumatic fever at the age of 45.

  • Her cardiac history included a myocardial infarct 5 years previously, mixed aortic valve disease, hypertension and rheumatic fever in childhood.

  • But, I also had rheumatic fever as a child.

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