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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...
- 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...
- A struma ovarii (literally: goitre of the ovary) is a rare form of monodermal teratoma that contains mostly thyroid tissue, which may cause hyperthyroidism...
- at Kyushu University, who first described the symptoms of persons with struma lymphomatosa, an intense infiltration of lymphocytes within the thyroid...
- 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...
- Struma Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Струма, romanized: lednik Struma, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈstrumɐ]) is a glacier in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland...
- which appeared in the 19th century, includes a choker, dubbed Kropfband (struma band) which was used to hide either the goitre or the remnants of goitre...
- Graves' disease, also known as toxic diffuse goiter or Basedow’s disease, is an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid. It frequently results in and...