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the detective work of figuring out why your own immune system declared war on you
means The branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the joints, muscles, and connective tissue — especially the autoimmune and inflammatory kind, like arthritis and lupus.
from From Greek 'rheuma,' meaning a 'flow' or 'stream' — the same root behind 'rheum,' that watery discharge from your eyes and nose. Ancient medicine blamed many aches on bad bodily fluids 'flowing' to the joints, so the diseases of stiff, swollen joints got tagged with the word for flowing. Add '-logy,' the Greek for 'study of,' and you have the study of the flow — even though we now know inflammation, not wandering humors, is the real culprit.
- self-sabotage
- specializes in immune systems attacking their own body
- name origin
- Greek rheuma, meaning a flowing stream
- over 100
- more than 100 distinct types of arthritis exist
- gold rush
- injectable gold once treated rheumatoid arthritis
- weather myth
- joint pain predicting rain is largely unproven
mayo clinic rheumatology — ranked #1 in rheumatology by us news & world report for multiple consecutive years
hospital for special surgery — nyc-based institution specializing in rheumatology and musculoskeletal diseases since 1863