rheum

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɹuːm/    美 /ɹuːm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. uncountable
    — You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]
  2. Clipping of rheumatologist. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal
    — […] the other rheumatologist in the practice I saw after that first meeting was irritated because my history was completely wrong. Not [irritated] at me, [but] the other rheum. […] I had to switch rheums at one point due to insurance problems. […] Thank god my good rheum’s office sorted out the insurance.
  3. Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. countable,uncountable
    — And not as ſome yeeres ſince, I ſaw a Deane of S. Hillarie of Poictiers, reduced by reaſon and the incommoditie of his melancholy to ſuch a continuall ſolitarineſſe, that when I entered into his chamber he had never remooved one ſteppe out of it in twoo and twenty yeares before: yet had all his faculties free and eaſie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his ſtomake.
  4. Tears. countable,poetic,uncountable
    — Rich. And ſay, what ſtore of parting tears were ſhed? / Aum. Faith none for me: except the Northeaſt wind / Which then grew bitterly againſt our face, / Awak’d the ſleepie rhewme, and ſo by chance / Did grace our hollow parting with a teare.

词形变化

rheums plural rheums plural

词汇关系

衍生词
enrheum rheumatic rheumatism rheumed rheumic rheumy salt rheum

词源

词源 1
From Middle English reume, rewme, from Anglo-Norman reume, from Late Latin rheuma, from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, humour”). Doublet of stream.
词源 2
Clipping of rheumatologist.
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