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Struma

noun
(pl. strumae)
1.
Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet.  Synonyms: goiter, goitre, thyromegaly.
2.
A form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands.  Synonyms: king's evil, scrofula.






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"Struma" Quotes from Famous Books



... they produce degradation and misery. But at the end of a third generation from then, what has happened? The line of the drunkard and of the debauchee, physically as well as morally weakened, is either extinct or on the way towards it. Struma, tubercle, nervous disease, have all lent a hand towards the pruning off of that rotten branch, and the average of the race is thereby improved. I believe from the little that I have seen of life, that it is a ...
— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro



Words linked to "Struma" :   T.B., tb, goiter, disease, tuberculosis



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