rheum

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

rheum, n. [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of which it grows. See Rhubarb.].

 A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.  [1913 Webster]

rheum, n. [OF. reume, rheume, F. rhume a cold,, L. rheuma rheum, from Gr. , fr. "rei^n to flow, akin to E. stream. See Stream, n., and cf. Hemorrhoids.].

 A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.  [1913 Webster]
"I have a rheum in mine eyes too."  [1913 Webster]

Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocabulary.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rheum, n. a watery discharge from a mucous membrane, esp. of the eyes or nose.

Etymology

ME f. OF reume ult. f. Gk rheuma -atos stream f. rheo flow

THESAURUS

rheum

Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, abscess, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, ague, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, apnea, asbestosis, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, atypical pneumonia, autacoid, backache, bile, bituminosis, black lung, bleeding, blennorhea, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, cachexia, cachexy, catarrh, chalicosis, chalone, chill, chills, chronic bronchitis, chyle, cold, colic, collapsed lung, colostrum, common cold, coniosis, constipation, convulsion, coryza, coughing, croup, croupous pneumonia, cyanosis, diarrhea, digestive secretion, discharge, dizziness, double pneumonia, dropsy, dry pleurisy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, emphysema, empyema, endocrine, epidemic pleurodynia, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fibrinous pneumonia, flu, flux, gall, gastric juice, gleet, grippe, growth, hay fever, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hormone, humor, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ichor, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, influenza, insomnia, intestinal juice, itching, jaundice, la grippe, labored breathing, lachryma, lactation, laryngitis, leukorrhea, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, low blood pressure, lumbago, lung cancer, lung fever, lymph, marasmus, matter, milk, mucor, mucus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, pancreatic juice, paralysis, peccant humor, pharyngitis, phlegm, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, prostatic fluid, pruritus, purulence, pus, quinsy, rash, saliva, salivary secretion, sanies, sclerosis, seizure, semen, serous fluid, serum, shock, siderosis, silicosis, skin eruption, sneezing, snot, sore, sore throat, spasm, sperm, suppuration, sweat, swine flu, tabes, tachycardia, tear, teardrop, tears, the sniffles, the snuffles, the whites, thyroxin, tonsilitis, tumor, upset stomach, urine, vertigo, virus pneumonia, vomiting, wasting, wet pleurisy, whooping cough

ROGET THESAURUS

rheum

Excretion

N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.

Fluidity

N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.

Water

N water, serum, serosity, lymph, rheum, diluent, agua, aqua, pani, dilution, maceration, lotion, washing, immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath, deluge, high water, flood tide, watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic, balneal, diluent, drenching, diluted, weak, wet, the waters are out.