Definition of Struma. Meaning of Struma. Synonyms of Struma

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Struma. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Struma and, of course, Struma synonyms and on the right images related to the word Struma.

Definition of Struma

Struma
Struma Stru"ma, n. [L., a scrofulous tumor.] 1. (Med.) Scrofula. 2. (Bot.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

Meaning of Struma from wikipedia

- up struma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Struma may refer to: Struma (medicine), a swelling in the neck due to an enlarged thyroid gland Struma (skin...
- The Struma or Strymónas (Bulgarian: Струма [ˈstrumɐ]; Gr****: Στρυμόνας [striˈmonas];) is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. Its ancient name was Strymṓn...
- A struma ovarii (literally: goitre of the ovary) is a rare form of monodermal teratoma that contains mostly thyroid tissue, which may cause hyperthyroidism...
- The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, MV Struma, which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member...
- MV Struma was a small ship with a long history that included a number of changes of use and many changes of name. She was built in 1867 as a British marquess's...
- The Struma Motorway (Bulgarian: Автомагистрала „Струма“, Avtomagistrala "Struma") is a motorway currently under construction in Bulgaria. The motorway...
- The Struma operation was the occupation of a part of northeastern mainland Greece by the Bulgarian army during the First World War between 17–23 August...
- was the sole survivor of the Struma disaster, in which the Shch-213 torpedoed and sank the Holocaust refugee ship MV Struma in the Black Sea in the early...
- at Kyushu University, who first described the symptoms of persons with struma lymphomatosa, an intense infiltration of lymphocytes within the thyroid...
- Riedel's thyroiditis Other names Riedel's struma Specialty Endocrinology ...