A tumor, known by the name of "gumma," is the result.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The name of a syphilitic swelling or tumor is gumma (plural, gummata).    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

The externally visible lesions of late (tertiary) syphilis is called a gumma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The gumma may remain for months unchanged, or may approach the surface, soften, and break down, leaving a deep, ragged ulcer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The contraction which follows the disappearance of a gumma of the sterno-mastoid may also produce a deformity resembling wry-neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

An unbroken gumma is liable to be confused only with the uncommon form of epithelioma which begins as a nodule under the mucous membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Various forms of growth occur in the brain, the most common being tuberculous nodules, syphilitic gumma, endothelioma, glioma, and sarcoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Anti-syphilitic treatment should be employed in the first instance to exclude the possibility of the lesion being of the nature of a gumma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

In cellulitis of the orbit, intra-orbital tumour, gumma and aneurysm in the region of the cavernous sinus, also, the optic nerve may be implicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

A localised gumma may develop in the neighbourhood of the angle of the mandible, or the whole of the body of that bone may be the seat of a diffuse gummatous infiltration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The lesions of the cerebral centres with which nerve symptoms are most frequently associated are: laceration of the brain, hæmorrhage, meningitis, tumour, and syphilitic gumma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Sometimes both nerves are involved -- for example, in fracture implicating both sides of the anterior fossa, and in tumours, particularly gumma, growing in the region of the floor of the third ventricle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

It also occurs in relation to septic lesions of the cranial bones such as a broken-down gumma, after operations on the cranial bones, and in cases of compound fracture attended with a mild degree of infection and with imperfect drainage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The severity of the symptoms depends to a large extent on the rapidity of growth of the tumour; thus an osteoma growing slowly from the inner table of the skull and implicating the brain may reach a considerable size without producing cerebral symptoms, while a comparatively small sarcoma or syphilitic gumma of rapid growth may endanger life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The nerve-trunks may be contused or torn across, especially in basal fractures which traverse their foramina of exit; blood may be effused into their sheaths as a result of injuries not attended with fracture; or they may be pressed upon by an inflammatory effusion, a tumour, a gumma, or an aneurysm invading the base of the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Tongue, absence of, 540 atrophy of, 540 bifid, 540 cancer of, 534 inoperable, 537 cysts, 537 dental ulcer of, 529 foot and mouth disease, 530 foreign bodies in, 529 glossitis, 530 gumma of, 533 hemi-glossitis, 530 inflammatory affections of, 530 leucokeratosis, 530 leucoplakia, 530 macroglossia, 540 malformations of, 540 mucous patches on, 533 nervous affections of, 540 neuralgia of, 540 paralysis of, 542 sarcoma of, 536 sclerosing glossitis, 533 smoker's parch, 532 spasm of, 542 surgical anatomy of, 528 syphilis of, 533.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Brain, abscess of, 360, 374, 376, 378, 382 localisation of, 380 adhesions, 358 cerebral irritation, 342, 346 compression of, 347 differential diagnosis of, 350 concussion of, 341, 344 contusion of, 342 cyst of, hæmorrhagic, 344 decompression operations on, 396 diseases of, 373 pyogenic, 373 foreign bodies in, 350 functions of, 331 hæmorrhage into, 352 hernia of, 397 injuries of, 341 mechanism of, 343 repair of, 344 irritation of, 342, 346 laceration of, 342 lesions of, 341 localisation of centres in, 336 membranes of, 328 diseases of, 372 motor area of, 330 sclerosis of, 358 sensory mechanism of, 332 softening of, 342 surgical anatomy of, 328 syphilitic gumma, 395 traumatic œdema of, 343, 352 tuberculosis of, 395 tumours of, 393 localisation of, 394 wounds of, 357.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference