gumma
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Origin of gumma
From New Latin, dating back to 1715–25; see origin at gum 1
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A gumma is usually situated on the dorsum and more often towards the centre than at the edges.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The life-history of an untreated gumma varies with its environment.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Sometimes both nerves are involved—for example, in fracture implicating both sides of the anterior fossa, and in tumours, particularly gumma, growing in the region of the floor of the third ventricle.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The lesions of the cerebral centres with which nerve symptoms are most frequently associated are: laceration of the brain, hæmorrhage, meningitis, tumour, and syphilitic gumma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Diagnosis.—Before the stage of cold abscess is reached, the localised swelling is to be differentiated from a gumma, from chronic forms of staphylococcal osteomyelitis, from enlarged bursa or ganglion, from sub-periosteal lipoma, and from sarcoma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
In spite of this fact, it is comparatively seldom torn in basal fractures; but it is prone to be pressed upon by tumours, gummas, or aneurysms in the region of the base of the brain.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Syphilitic ulcers and fissures are nearly always due to the softening and breaking down of gummas.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The tertiary manifestations in the tongue are sclerosing glossitis, gummas, and gummatous ulcers.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
In the tertiary stage the joint lesions are persistent and destructive, and result from the formation of gummata, either in the deeper layers of the synovial membrane or in the adjacent bone or periosteum.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Of the diseases affecting individual bones and predisposing them to fracture may be mentioned suppurative osteomyelitis, hydatid cysts, tuberculosis, syphilitic gummata, and various forms of new-growth, particularly sarcoma and secondary cancer.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
I suspected the development of gummata on the meninges of the brain and cord, and advised him to use the inunction cure, and to remain at home until he should be well.
From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
Syphilitic disease is rarely recognised except in the form of bursal and peri-bursal gummata in front of the knee-joint.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Soft or firm elevations, usually large and prominent, and having their seat in the corium and subcutaneous tissue; as, for example, sebaceous tumors, gummata, and the lesions of fibroma.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
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