Thesaurus: scrofula

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1. n. A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).
2. n. a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands
3. A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).
4. A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especiallymanifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of thelymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by atendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations ofthe skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by adiminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and thecapacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to betuberculous in character, and may develop into general or localtuberculosis (consumption).
5. n:100 n. a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands