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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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
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 contraction which follows the disappearance of a gumma of the sterno-mastoid may also produce a deformity resembling wry-neck.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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 Alexander Miles
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 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
The mucous plaque has the same appearance as one situated on the velum, and gummata resemble those seen in the mucosa elsewhere.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
In tertiary lesions there is greater difficulty in demonstrating the spirochæte, but small numbers have been found in the peripheral parts of gummata and in the thickened patches in syphilitic disease of the aorta.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Peri-synovial and peri-bursal gummata are met with in relation to the knee-joint of middle-aged adults, especially women.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Localised gummata are described with tumours of the brain.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
White swelling is to be differentiated from peri-synovial gummata, from myeloma and sarcoma of the lower end of the femur, and from bleeder's knee.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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