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Rheumatic fever (medicine) and confederate (oh)


Rheumatic fever (medicine)


rheumatic fever
<microbiology> Disease involving inflammation of joints and damage to heart valves that follows streptococcal infection and is believed to be autoimmune, i.e. Antibodies to streptococcal components cross react with host tissue antigens.


confederate (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: , past participle of confoederare, from Latin com- ( COM-) + foedus ( FEDERAL)]
formal someone who helps someone else do something, especially something secret or illegal
-synonym accomplice accomplice
::The young woman was his confederate, of course.
a member of a confederacy
-- confederate adj

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