gumma
Americannoun
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gummas,
plural
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gummata
plural
noun
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Origin of gumma
From New Latin, dating back to 1715–25; see origin at gum 1
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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 Alexander Miles
Various forms of growth occur in the brain, the most common being tuberculous nodules, syphilitic gumma, endothelioma, glioma, and sarcoma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The periosteal gumma appears as a smooth, circumscribed swelling which is soft and elastic in the centre and firm at the margins, and shades off into the surrounding bone.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
A central gumma in a long bone may not reveal its presence until it erupts through the shell and reaches the periosteal surface or invades an adjacent joint.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Tertiary Lesions of the Skin and Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue.—The clinical features of a subcutaneous gumma are those of an indolent, painless, elastic swelling, varying in size from a pea to an almond or walnut.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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 Alexander Miles
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 Alexander Miles
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 Alexander Miles
One or more of the gummata may break down and give rise to tertiary ulcers.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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 Alexis Thomson
It has been met with in the placenta, diphtheritic membranes, blood-vessels, tubercles, and gummata.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In tertiary syphilis, individual muscles may become the seat of interstitial myositis or of gummata, and these affections readily yield to anti-syphilitic remedies.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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 George M. Schweig
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