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scrofula

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scrof·u·la  (skrfy-l)
n.
A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. Also called struma.
[Middle English scrophula, from Late Latin scrfulae, swelling of the glands, diminutive of Latin scrfa, sow; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
scrofula
Noun
No longer in technical use tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands [Medieval Latin]
scrofulous adj
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Noun1.scrofula - a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands
king's evil, struma
T.B., tuberculosis, TB - infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
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There was no other attribute that so much impressed her with a sense of new and untransmitted vigour in Pearl's nature, as this never failing vivacity of spirits: she had not the disease of sadness, which almost all children, in these latter days, inherit, with the scrofula, from the troubles of their ancestors.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
I judged that a sharp, bright new nickel, with a first-rate like- ness of the king on one side of it and Guenever on the other, and a blooming pious motto, would take the tuck out of scrofula as handy as a nobler coin and please the scrofulous fancy more; and I was right.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
He inherited a constitution of iron, great physical strength, and fearless self-assertiveness, but also hypochondria (persistent melancholy), uncouthness of body and movement, and scrofula, which disfigured his face and greatly injured his eyesight.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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