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Webster 1913 Edition


Struma


Stru′ma

,
Noun.
[L., a scrofulous tumor.]
1.
(Med.)
Scrofula.
2.
(Bot.)
A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

Webster 1828 Edition


Struma

STRUMA

,
Noun.
[L.] A glandular swelling; scrofula; the kings evil; a wen.

Definition 2024


struma

struma

English

Noun

struma (plural strumas or strumae)

  1. (pathology) Scrofula.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 186:
      This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.
  2. (pathology) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goiter.

Italian

Etymology

Latin

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

  1. struma

Latin

Etymology

From struō.

Pronunciation

Noun

strūma f (genitive strūmae); first declension

  1. A scrofulous tumor, struma

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative strūma strūmae
genitive strūmae strūmārum
dative strūmae strūmīs
accusative strūmam strūmās
ablative strūmā strūmīs
vocative strūma strūmae

References


Venetian

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

  1. effort, toil