The bleeding stopped, and, like the struma, it did not show itself anymore. From Wordnik.com. [Vitaly L. Ginzburg - Autobiography] Reference
Laurentius reports that Francis I, when a prisoner in Spain, cured a great number of people of struma (scrofula). From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The necessity for such instruction is somewhat indicated, in the effect upon the prenatal state, of such conditions as scrofula or struma, of various forms of tuberculosis and syphilis, of epilepsy, of rheumatism, and of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
She was one of those beautiful white-and-pink creatures who are rotten with struma. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
A rare tumour (struma ovarii) on the ovaries that releases thyroid hormones into the body. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Surgery will relieve the compression of struma and benign neoplasms, and may be indicated in certain neoplasms of malignant origin. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
Theodor von Billroth (1829-94; extirpation of the larynx and struma, resection of the pylorus) and Richard von Volkmann (1830-89; surgery of the joints). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Magic Door] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Prof. Gross says: 'What is called scrofula, struma, or tuberculosis, is, I have long been satisfied from careful observation of the sick and a profound study of the literature of the subject, in a great majority of cases, if not invariably, merely syphilis in its more remote stages.'. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Facts for Old and Young] Reference
Prof. Gross says: ` What is called scrofula, struma, or tuberculosis, is, I have long been satisfied from careful observation of the sick and a profound study of the literature of the subject, in a great majority of cases, if not invariably, merely syphilis in its more remote stages. '. From Wordnik.com. [Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.] Reference
How far the hard-drinking habits in vogue for a century or so before had anything to do with it I cannot say, nor can I trace a connection between struma and learning; but one has only to compare this account of Gibbon with Johnson's nervous twitches, his scarred face and his St. Vitus 'dance, to realize that these, the two most solid. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Magic Door] Reference
2, 'Sella in curuli struma Nonius sedet,' cannot refer to B.C. 47, as the only ordinary curule magistrates in that year were P. Vatinius and Q. Fufius Calenus. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
How far the hard-drinking habits in vogue for a century or so before had anything to do with it I cannot say, nor can I trace a connection between struma and learning; but one has only to compare this account of Gibbon with Johnson's nervous twitches, his scarred face and his St. Vitus 'dance, to realize that these, the two most solid English writers of their generation, were each heir to the same gruesome inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Magic Door]
To place in the same rubric a simple somatic hysteria like a paralysis and the complications of what are comprised in psychological neurasthenia as so lucidly described in this book, seems at first sight irrational; but so at first appeared the placing together of clinical pictures as unlike as cervical struma, phthisis pulmonalis and ossious caries under the rubric of tuberculosis, and in a nearer field the synthesis of catatonia, hebephrenia and cementing paranoia into the rubric of dementia precox. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Sella in curuli struma Nonius sedet. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
To persons somewhat older, affections of the tonsils, incurvation of the spine at the vertebra next the occiput, asthma, calculus, round worms, ascarides, acrochordon, satyriasmus, struma, and other tubercles (phymata), but especially the aforesaid. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
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