gumma
Americannoun
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gummas,
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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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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
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
The syphilitic gumma, which begins as a rounded indolent swelling, is usually situated in the middle line near the posterior edge of the hard palate.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Anti-syphilitic treatment should be employed in the first instance to exclude the possibility of the lesion being of the nature of a gumma.
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 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
In this period gummata form, or there may be diffuse infiltration of various parts of the body, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the bones, skin and other tissues, nervous diseases, and so on.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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 the later stages of acquired syphilis, gummatous periostitis and osteomyelitis occur, and are characterised by the formation in the periosteum and marrow of circumscribed gummata or of a diffuse gummatous infiltration.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
During the secondary period the lesion usually consists in effusion into the sheath; gummata are met with during the tertiary period.
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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