struma
IPA: strˈumʌ
noun
- (pathology) Scrofula.
- (pathology) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.
- A river in Bulgaria, and northern Greece, which flows into the Aegean Sea.
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Examples of "struma" in Sentences
- The bleeding stopped, and, like the struma, it did not show itself anymore.
- Its title is derived as some think, from struma, because curative [161] thereof.
- Laurentius reports that Francis I, when a prisoner in Spain, cured a great number of people of struma (scrofula).
- Surgery will relieve the compression of struma and benign neoplasms, and may be indicated in certain neoplasms of malignant origin.
- A military doctor, who seemed an elderly man to me, poked his finger at my neck, uttered the diagnosis "struma" and sent me to a civil group.
- Theodor von Billroth (1829-94; extirpation of the larynx and struma, resection of the pylorus) and Richard von Volkmann (1830-89; surgery of the joints).
- The fact is that the England of that day seems to have been very full of that hereditary form of chronic ill-health which we call by the general name of struma.
- The woodlouse, sowpig, or hoglouse abounds with a nitrous salt which has long found favour for curing scrofulous [565] disease, and inveterate struma, as also against some kinds of stone in the bladder.
- The necessity for such instruction is somewhat indicated, in the effect upon the prenatal state, of such conditions as scrofula or struma, of various forms of tuberculosis and syphilis, of epilepsy, of rheumatism, and of insanity.
- Aleacman now Peleca, another stream in Thessaly, turns cattle most part white, si polui ducas, L. Aubanus Rohemus refers that [1391] struma or poke of the Bavarians and Styrians to the nature of their waters, as [1392] Munster doth that of Valesians in the Alps, and [1393] Bodine supposeth the stuttering of some families in Aquitania, about
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