desert rheumatism

1. 1.

   an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules

   Synonymscoccidioidomycosiscoccidiomycosisvalley fever

   Broaderfungal infection

Questions about desert rheumatism

What does desert rheumatism mean?

desert rheumatism means "an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules".

What is another word for desert rheumatism?

Close synonyms include coccidioidomycosis, coccidiomycosis, valley fever. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is desert rheumatism a common word?

desert rheumatism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.