Question

why the disease 'rheumatism' is written in two parts ?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Rheumatic diseases are inflammatory and often autoimmune in nature. That means that your immune system erroneously attacks healthy tissues.

Rheumatic diseases tend to affect the following parts of the musculoskeletal system:

joints

muscles

bones

tendons and ligaments

You may see rheumatic diseases lumped under the general term “arthritis.” While rheumatic diseases do encompass some forms of arthritis, they also include many other conditions.

While rheumatologists do treat the most common type of arthritis — osteoarthritis — it isn’t considered a rheumatic disease. That’s because osteoarthritis is caused by the natural wearing

down of cartilage and bone around joints as opposed to inflammation.