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• struma
  struma

  noun

  goiter.
• Struma
  Struma

  noun

  a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.

struma

¹ American  

[stroo-muh] / ˈstru mə /

noun

• strumae
  plural

1. Pathology. goiter.

2. Botany. a cushionlike swelling on an organ, as that at one side of the base of the capsule in many mosses.

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Struma ² American  

[stroo-mah] / ˈstru mɑ /

noun

1. a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.

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struma ¹ British  

/ ˈstruːmə /

noun

1. pathol an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland; goitre

2. botany a swelling, esp one at the base of a moss capsule

3. another word for scrofula

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Struma ² British  

/ ˈstruːmə /

noun

1. Greek names: Strimon, Strymon. a river in S Europe, rising in SW Bulgaria near Sofia and flowing generally southeast through Greece to the Aegean. Length: 362 km (225 miles)

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• strumatic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• strumae
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of struma

1555–65; < New Latin; Latin strūma scrofulous tumor

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Example Sentences

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struma Struma

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

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 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

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

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

Three days later, as the Struma limped toward Turkey, the engines failed again.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2016

In the Struma Valley they admitted stubborn resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, barely two weeks later, on December 5, 1917, violent fighting was said to have begun for several miles along the front near the Struma, with the net result that "several Bulgarian patrols were captured."

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

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