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 caseated tissue of a gumma differs from that of a tuberculous lesion in being tough and firm, of a buff colour like wash-leather, or whitish, like boiled fish.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
A central gumma may eat away the surrounding bone to such an extent that the shaft undergoes pathological fracture.
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
An unbroken gumma is liable to be confused only with the uncommon form of epithelioma which begins as a nodule under the mucous membrane.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Local Treatment.—The absorption of a subcutaneous gumma is often hastened by the application of a fly-blister.
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
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
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
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 Alexis Thomson
Of interest here is the fact that besides gummata, ulcers, and other lesions of the bundle, definite arteriosclerotic changes have been found.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
Localised gummata are described with tumours of the brain.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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
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