Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small rubbery granuloma that has a necrotic center and is enclosed by an inflamed fibrous capsule. It is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a kind of tumor produced by syphilis, so called from the resemblance of its contents to gum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology a soft,
non-cancerous growth , a form ofgranuloma , resulting from the tertiary stage ofsyphilis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A tumor, known by the name of "gumma," is the result.
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The name of a syphilitic swelling or tumor is gumma (plural, gummata).
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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_Esophageal syphilis_ is a rather rare affection, and may show itself as a mucous plaque, a gumma, an ulceration, or a cicatrix.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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From their ranks are recruited a whole army of those secessions from and rebellions against the body at large -- the tumors, from the treacherous and deadly sarcoma, or "soft cancer," to the harmless fatty tumor, as well as the tubercle, the gumma of syphilis, the interstitial fibrosis of Bright's disease.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Sometimes both nerves are involved -- for example, in fracture implicating both sides of the anterior fossa, and in tumours, particularly gumma, growing in the region of the floor of the third ventricle.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The gumma may remain for months unchanged, or may approach the surface, soften, and break down, leaving a deep, ragged ulcer.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The severity of the symptoms depends to a large extent on the rapidity of growth of the tumour; thus an osteoma growing slowly from the inner table of the skull and implicating the brain may reach a considerable size without producing cerebral symptoms, while a comparatively small sarcoma or syphilitic gumma of rapid growth may endanger life.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The _syphilitic gumma_, which begins as a rounded indolent swelling, is usually situated in the middle line near the posterior edge of the hard palate.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The contraction which follows the disappearance of a gumma of the sterno-mastoid may also produce a deformity resembling wry-neck.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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An unbroken gumma is liable to be confused only with the uncommon form of epithelioma which begins as a nodule under the mucous membrane.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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