Pl. strumæ; also 6 strumas, 7 -aes, 7–8 -a’s. See also STRUME. [mod.L. use of L. strūma scrofulous tumor.]
1. Path. a. = SCROFULA. Also applied to goitre or bronchocele, and to tubercular disease, esp. in mod.L. specific designations as Struma aberrata, adiposa, etc.
1565. J. Hall, Lanfranc’s Chirurg., Expos. Table, 46. For if by melancholy they become scirrhous, he calleth them Scrophulas, but Galen nameth them Strumas.
1575. Banister, Chyrurg., I. (1585), 92. Struma is called of the barbarous sort, Scrofula, and englished the Kinge’s or Queenes euill.
1655. Culpepper, etc., Riverius, X. iv. 290. Al the Mesaraick Veins … be stopped, as in Children who have the Struma, or Kings Evil.
1676. Wiseman, Surg. Treat., IV. ii. 248. If this acid Humour be simple, the Disease is a simple Struma; if joined with a malignity, or any other Humour, it makes a mixt Tumour, as Struma maligna, Phlegmonodes, Schirrhodes, Oedematodes, &c.
1784. T. White (title), A Treatise on Struma or Scrophula, commonly called the King’s Evil.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxix. 393. The constitution of the patient rapidly gives way under the continuation of struma.
1878. W. J. Walsham, Handbk. Surg. Pathol., 41. Struma or scrofula manifests itself in bone either as a low form of chronic ostitis. … or as a deposit of miliary tubercles.
b. A scrofulous swelling or tumor. Also, a goitre, bronchocele (rare).
1654. J. Webster, Acad. Examen, 74. Great and dangerous sores, as the Lupus,… Elephantiasis, Strumaes.
1670. T. Brooks, Wks. (1867), VI. 426. That one man dies … of an apoplexy in the head, another of a struma in the neck.
1676. Wiseman, Surg. Treat., IV. ii. 249. When he wakened his Neck was full of Strumæ on both sides, some as big as Walnuts. Ibid., IV. iv. 299. He had also a Struma ulcerated in each Arm. Ibid. He had also in the Groin of the same side a Cluster of Strumæ.
1684. J. Brown (title), Adenochoiradelogia: or An Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise of Glandules & Strumaes, or Kings-Evil-Swellings.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, Ded. (1697), 23. A Bunch or Struma under the Chin.
1753. R. Russell, Diss. Sea Water, 142. Struma’s are apt to rise again near their old Cicatrices.
2. Bot. A cellular dilatation on a leaf-stalk at the point where the petiole joins the lamina or where the midrib joins the leaflets of a compound leaf. See also quot. 1866.
1832. Lindley, Introd. Bot., I. ii. 95. At the opposite extremity of the petiole, where it is connected with the lamina, a similar swelling is often remarkable…: this is called the struma, or, by the French bourrelet.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 174. A somewhat similar swelling may be also seen in many compound leaves at the base of each partial petiole, which is termed the struma.
1866. Treas. Bot., Struma,… A protuberance at the base of the spore-cases of some urn-mosses.
