1. rheumatology-the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of pathologies of the muscles or tendons or joints. medical specialty, medicine-the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
This multiculturalism, or diverse cultural environment, is why America is commonly referred to as a 'melting pot'. The American political culture is based on the important principle that America welcomes and celebrates people from many different countries, races and religions.
Native American cultures in the United States. Native Americans in the United States fall into a number of distinct ethno-linguistic and territorial phyla, whose only uniting characeristic is that they were in a stage of either Mesolithic (hunter-gatherer) or Neolithic (subsistence farming) culture at the time of European contact.