Definition of Strumous

1. a. Scrofulous; having struma.

Definition of Strumous

1. Adjective. (medicine) scrofulous; having struma ¹

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Definition of Strumous

1. having or pertaining to a struma [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strumous

strum
struma
strumae
strumas
strumatic
strumbled
strummed
strummel
strummels
strummer
strummers
strumming
strummings
strummy
strumose
strumous (current term)
strumousness
strumpets
strums
strumstrum
strumstrums
strung
strung-out
strung together
strunt
strunted
strunting
strunts

Literary usage of Strumous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"THERE are at present in the wards of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary under my charge, five cases of strumous arthritis of the knee. ..."

2. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1855)
"With this strumous affection of the eye there are usually present other evidences also of scrofulous disease. Swelling and redness of the ais nasi and upper ..."

3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1872)
"Few writers on strumous diseases fail to mention setons or issues among the ... The wife of a farmer—one of an eminently strumous family—had during two ..."

4. The Retrospect of Medicine (1856)
"ON CAPILLARY BRONCHITIS AND strumous PNEUMONIA. ... In a case recently, which offered all the features of strumous pneumonia, different possibly from what ..."

5. A treatise on the diseases of the eye and its appendages by Richard Middlemore (1835)
"LAWRENCE merely mentions the occasional existence of strumous iritis, ... In strumous children, inflammation commencing in the external parts of the eye, ..."

6. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"CHRONIC strumous ARTHRITIS, OB WHITE SWELLING. SYMPTOMS. ... It may commence with a subacute synovitis in strumous subject, assuming its peculiar character ..."

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