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strumous, a.|ˈstruːməs|
[ad. L. strūmōsus: see struma and -ous.]
1. Affected with struma; characteristic of or indicative of a scrofulous disposition.
1590P. Barrough Meth. Phys. v. xxiv. (1634) 335 King Edward also..was wont marvellously to cure Strumous persons onely by touching them. a1700Evelyn Diary Apr. 1646, The men using more wine are not so strumous as the women. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 105 The brain I have given a description of was strumous. 1822L. M. Hawkins Anecd. I. 303 He had a pale strumous countenance. 1822–9Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 471 The first variety occurs..in strumous or other weakly constitutions. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. (ed. 6) 298 With yeast already in a state of exhaustion, we have seen a crop of fungus produced in the head of a strumous boy. 1872J. C. Jeaffreson Woman in spite of Herself i. vi, The son came in the form of a feeble, nervous, ricketty, strumous child. 1875B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 67 A young lady, of strumous habit.
absol.1891Sat. Rev. 498 When Shakespeare spoke of holding the mirror up to Nature, he surely did not mean so holding it that it reflected only the base and strumous.
2. Of the nature of or caused by struma.
1590P. Barrough Meth. Phys. v. xxiv. (1634) 333 Now these strumous tumours are greatly helped by using purging medicines. 1676Wiseman Surg. Treat. iv. ii. 249 The similitude will hold good of our Strumous Acidity. Ibid. iv. iv. 298 He had a strumous Ulcer on the outside of his Ancle. 1748tr. Vegetius' Distempers of Horses 160 Strumous Botches..or scrophulous Disorders infest the Throats of Horses. 1802W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Disease (1806) 139 This disorder arises from a strumous swelling of the glands. 1859J. Tomes Dental Surg. 71 The subject..died exhausted by strumous abscesses. 1878W. J. Walsham Handbk. Surg. Pathol. 41 Strumous ostitis is merely inflammation of bone occurring in an unhealthy or so-called ‘strumous’ subject. 1895W. W. Cheyne Tuberc. Dis. Bones & Joints 18 In describing the morbid anatomy of tubercular diseases of bones and joints, I therefore describe the morbid anatomy of those affections known up till recently as ‘strumous diseases’.
3. Nat. Hist. Having a natural protuberance on some part of the body. strumous lizard (see quot.).
1802Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 224 Strumous Lizard. Lacerta Strumosa... Lizard with long round tail, and gibbose projecting breast... It is a native..of South America. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 602 Anthelia strumosa. (Ehrenberg.)..Glaucous; polyps inflated below the mouth, strumous.
Hence ˈstrumousness, the state or quality of being strumous.
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