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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The inflammatory lesions at the ends of the long bones—tubercle, syphilitic gumma, and Brodie's abscess, that resemble myeloma, are all attended with the formation of new bone in greater or lesser amount.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
If a periosteal gumma breaks down and invades the skin, a syphilitic ulcer is formed with carious bone at the bottom.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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 Thomson, Alexis
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 Thomson, Alexis
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
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
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
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 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 Thomson, Alexis
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 Thomson, Alexis
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 Thomson, Alexis
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 ?Malley, Austin
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 Warfield, Louis Marshall
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