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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.

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

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