struma

¹

[ stroo-muh ]

noun

, plural stru·mae [stroo, -mee].

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.

Struma

²

[ stroo-mah ]

noun

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

Struma

¹

/ ˈstruːmə /

noun

1. 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) Greek namesStrimonStrymon

struma

²

/ 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

Derived Forms

• strumatic, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of struma¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of struma¹

C16: from Latin: a scrofulous tumour, from struere to heap up

Example Sentences

In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.

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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.

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Surgery will relieve the compression of struma and benign neoplasms, and may be indicated in certain neoplasms of malignant origin.

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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.

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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.

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