rheumatic fever

1. 1.

   a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves

   Broaderinfectious disease

   Partsrheumatic aortitis

Questions about rheumatic fever

What does rheumatic fever mean?

rheumatic fever means "a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves".

Is rheumatic fever a common word?

rheumatic fever 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.