Definition of "struma" [‖Stru•ma]

• See scrofula. (noun)
• See goiter. (noun)
• Botany A cushionlike swelling at the base of a moss capsule. (noun)

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• "A military doctor, who seemed an elderly man to me, poked his finger at my neck, uttered the diagnosis "struma" and sent me to a civil group."
• "Aleacman now Peleca, another stream in Thessaly, turns cattle most part white, si polui ducas, L. Aubanus Rohemus refers that [1391] struma or poke of the Bavarians and Styrians to the nature of their waters, as [1392] Munster doth that of Valesians in the Alps, and [1393] Bodine supposeth the stuttering of some families in Aquitania, about"
• "The bleeding stopped, and, like the struma, it did not show itself anymore."