struma
noun
struma
1 American
[stroo-muh]
/ ˈstru mə /
noun
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strumae
plural
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Pathology. goiter.
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Botany. a cushionlike swelling on an organ, as that at one side of the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Struma
2
American
[stroo-mah]
/ ˈstru mɑ /
noun
struma
1
British
/ ˈstruːmə /
noun
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pathol an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland; goitre
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botany a swelling, esp one at the base of a moss capsule
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another word for scrofula
Struma
2
British
/ ˈstruːmə /
noun
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Origin of struma
1555–65; < New Latin; Latin strūma scrofulous tumor
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Surgery will relieve the compression of struma and benign neoplasms, and may be indicated in certain neoplasms of malignant origin.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
The names goiter, struma, and bronchocele are applied indiscriminately to all tumors of the thyroid gland; there are, however, several distinct varieties among them that are true adenoma, which, therefore, deserves a place here.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
The fact is that the England of that day seems to have been very full of that hereditary form of chronic ill-health which we call by the general name of struma.
From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gouty diathesis, rheumatic diathesis, disorders of the digestive tract, general debility or lack of tone, an exhausted state of the nervous system, dentition and struma.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Firefighters and police officers later inspected the scorched shell of the vehicle in the middle of the Struma highway, which was closed Tuesday morning.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021
Neutral Turkey, whose leaders feared angering either Britain or Germany, interned the Struma offshore while its fate was considered.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
A short while later, about 24 hours after the Struma had sunk, a large ship appeared in the distance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which is only 55 miles from Salonika.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had a few days' leave from the Struma front.
From Command by William McFee
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