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- noun Plural form of
gumma .
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Examples
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I can also hurt your nerves and brain, or cause 'gummas' lesions around your bones and body.
Archive 2007-05-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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I can also hurt your nerves and brain, or cause 'gummas' lesions around your bones and body.
Treponema pallidum Emma Lurie 2007
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Other sources, such as the Lu qiao ji wen, indicate that as he was dying Chenggong scratched his eyes and face, which would perhaps fit a diagnosis of tertiary syphilis, in which gummas form on the face.
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In spite of this fact, it is comparatively seldom torn in basal fractures; but it is prone to be pressed upon by tumours, gummas, or aneurysms in the region of the base of the brain.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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_Syphilitic ulcers and fissures_ are nearly always due to the softening and breaking down of gummas.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The _tertiary_ manifestations in the tongue are sclerosing glossitis, gummas, and gummatous ulcers.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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