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struma
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n. abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from under-production or over-production of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet [syn: goiter , goitre , thyromegaly ] a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands ...
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The Struma or Strymónas ( Bulgarian Струма, pronounced , Greek Στρυμόνας , Turkish (Struma) Karasu 'black water') is a river in Bulgaria and Greece . Its ancient name was Strymōn ( Greek : Στρυμών ). Its catchment area is 10,800 km². It takes its source ...
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n. 1 (context pathology English) scrofula. 2 (context pathology English) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goiter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Struma \Stru"ma\, n. [L., a scrofulous tumor.] (Med.) Scrofula. (Bot.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Usage examples of struma.
Loosely, that part of Balkan Europe between the west side of the Dardanelles and the Struma River.
In May, acting under his orders, Greek troops admitted the Bulgars into Forts Rupel and Dragotin, the keys of the Struma Valley.
Monastir, an eccentric route to Sofia or the Danube, and the British troops along the Struma were not cast for the part of an advance towards Rumania.
The part assigned to the British contingents under General Milne, which had taken over the front from the Vardar eastwards past Doiran and down the Struma to the sea, was the somewhat thankless one of pinning the Bulgars to that sector and preventing them from reinforcing the threatened line in the west.
The various British attacks on villages east of the Struma, such as Nevolien, Jenikoi, Prosenik, and Barakli-Djuma, were thus merely raids, and the ground gained was soon evacuated for tactical or sanitary reasons.
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.
It would come, they thought, through Bulgaria, and the probable line of advance would be down the Struma Valley against Salonika.
February 1942, when the derelict Struma, carrying 767 Jews, was towed back into the Black Sea by the Turks, under British pressure, and sank with only one survivor.
Struma, tubercle, nervous disease, have all lent a hand towards the pruning off of that rotten branch, and the average of the race is thereby improved.