Definition of rheumaholiday

rheumaholiday

• disparaging nickname for rheumatology, used by doctors in the UK.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  
  Citation from "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

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  Last edited on Apr 16 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 23 2010.

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