struma

¹ American  

[stroo-muh] / ˈstru mə /

noun

plural

strumae

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  

/ struːˈmætɪk, ˈstruːməs, ˈstruːməʊs, 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

• strumatic adjective

Etymology

Origin of struma

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

Example Sentences

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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

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 Jackson, Chevalier

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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