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Description and Symptoms of Rheumatology
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Tags: Rheumatology, rheumatic, arthritis, joints, symptoms
Rheumatology, a subspecialty of internal medicine, is devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases. The term originates from the Greek rheuma, meaning "that which flows as a river or stream" and the suffix -ology, meaning "the study of". Rheumatologists mainly deal with problems involving the joints and the allied conditions of connective tissue.
| | Rheumatic diseases present different symptoms. In general, however, symptoms may include: |
| | joint pain |
| | swelling in one or more joints |
| | joint stiffness that lasts for at least one hour in the early morning |
| | chronic pain or tenderness in the joint(s) |
| | warmth and redness in the joint area |
| | limited movement in the affected joint(s) |
| | fatigue |
| | persistent fevers |
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