struman.
/ˈstruːmə/, U.S. /ˈstrumə/ 1. Pathology.
a. = scrofula n. Also applied to goitre or bronchocele, and to tubercular disease, esp. in modern Latin specific designations as struma aberrata, struma adiposa, etc.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > scrofula
king's evila1387
scrofulac1400
escroeles1483
swine's evil1528
strume1559
struma1565
queen's evil1584
evila1616
crewels1660
royal evila1678
scrofulosis1860
scrofulide1864
scrofulodermia1899
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > goitre
wen1530
strume1559
struma1565
Bavarian poke1621
goitre1625
bronchocele1657
throat rupture1662
strumosity1674
Derby neck1769
Derbyshire neck1802
tracheocele1828
Graves's disease1868
thyrocele1886
strumitis1889
1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 46 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. For if by melancholy they become scirrhous, he calleth them Scrophulas, but Galen nameth them Strumas.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. 92 Struma is called of the barbarous sort, scrofula, and englished the Kinges or Queenes euill.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick x. iv. 290 Al the Mesaraick Veins..be stopped, as in Children who have the Struma, or Kings Evil.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. ii. 248 If this acid Humour be simple, the Disease is a simple Struma; if joined with a malignity, or any other Humour, it makes a mixt Tumour, as Struma maligna, Phlegmonodes, Schirrhodes, Oedematodes, &c.
1784 T. White (title) A Treatise on Struma or Scrophula, commonly called the King's Evil.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxix. 393 The constitution of the patient rapidly gives way under the continuation of struma.
1878 W. J. Walsham Handbk. Surg. Pathol. 41 Struma or scrofula manifests itself in bone either as a low form of chronic ostitis..or as a deposit of miliary tubercles.
b. A scrofulous swelling or tumour. Also, a goitre, bronchocele (rare).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > scrofulous swelling
scrofflesa1400
struma1653
scrofuloderma1857
1653 J. Webster Academiarum Examen 74 Great and dangerous sores, as the Lupus,..Elephantiasis, Strumaes.
1670 T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 426 That one man dies..of an apoplexy in the head, another of a struma in the neck.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. ii. 249 When he wakened his Neck was full of Strumæ on both sides, some as big as Walnuts.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. iv. 299 He had also a Struma ulcerated in each Arm.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. iv. 299 He had also in the Groin of the same side a Cluster of Strumæ.
1684 J. Browne (title) Adenochoiradelogia: or An Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise of Glandules & Strumaes, or Kings-Evil-Swellings.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xvii A Bunch, or Struma under the Chin.
1753 R. Russell Diss. Use of Sea Water 142 Struma's are apt to rise again near their old Cicatrices.
c. struma lymphomatosa [modern Latin, coined in German (H. Hashimoto 1912, in Arch. f. klin. Chir. XCVII. 219)] , = Hashimoto's disease at Hashimoto n.; Riedel's struma [Riedel n.] , a rare condition of uncertain status in which the thyroid becomes hard, nodular, and fibrotic.
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myxoedema1878
thyroiditis1889
Riedel1912
struma lymphomatosa1931
1931 Arch. Surg. XXII. 548 Recent writers have stated that struma lymphomatosa is the early stage of Riedel's struma, despite the fact that Hashimoto..definitely rejected such a relationship.
1947 H. Selye Textbk. Endocrinol. 714/2 The etiology of struma lymphomatosa is unknown but its histologic characteristics are not typical of inflammatory lesions.
1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. II. 1111/2 (heading) Riedel's thyroiditis... This disorder, formerly known as Riedel's struma, ‘woody thyroid’, or invasive fibrous thyroiditis, is not unanimously accepted as a distinct disease entity. Up to twenty years ago the term was widely used synonymously with Hashimoto's disease.
1974 S. L. Robbins Pathol. Basis Dis. xxix. 1328/1 In years past, Riedel's struma was thought to be the fibrotic end-stage of struma lymphomatosa.
2. Botany. A cellular dilatation on a leaf-stalk at the point where the petiole joins the lamina or where the midrib joins the leaflets of a compound leaf. See also quot. 1866.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > petiole or leaf-stalk > [noun] > pulvinule or struma
pulvinus1832
struma1832
pulvinule1919
pulvinulus1991
the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > parts of
moutha1398
fimbria1752
calyptra1753
veil1760
lid1776
apophysis1785
operculum1788
peristoma1792
peristome1799
peristomium1806
hair-point1818
vaginula1818
perigynium1821
vaginule1821
gemma1830
paraphyllium1832
tympanum1832
perigon1857
pseudopodium1861
commissure1863
ocrea1863
cap1864
chaeta1866
struma1866
membranulet1891
pyxis1900
pseudopod1914
annulus-
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 95 At the opposite extremity of the petiole, where it is connected with the lamina, a similar swelling is often remarkable..: this is called the struma, or, by the French bourrelet.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 175 A somewhat similar swelling may be also seen in many compound leaves at the base of each partial petiole, which is termed the struma.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Struma,..A protuberance at the base of the spore-cases of some urn~mosses.
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