strumous

American  

[stroo-muhs] / ˈstru məs /

adjective

1. strumose.

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Other Word Forms

• strumousness noun

Etymology

Origin of strumous

First recorded in 1580–90; strum(a) + -ous

Example Sentences

The disease is slow and persistent, and is commonly met with in girls and young women, usually of strumous type.

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

If the infant derives the disposition to a strumous constitution entirely from the father, and the mother's health be unexceptionable, then I would strongly advise her to suckle her own child.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

The child is strumous, however, and may die young.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

These other poor devils, worried, stiff, strumous, awkward, vapid, and rather coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like.

From An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, Bernard

It is seen in the form of phthisis, strumous ulcerations, chronic bone diseases, and most commonly as strumous ulcerations of the face, nose, pharynx, or throat, which is named tubercular lupus.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil