Crossword-Solution: GUMMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gumma | n. | A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin. |
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| GUMMA | anagram | MGMUA |
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| morbid growth of tissue | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with GUMMA (5)
Gumma (in third stage of Syphilis) appear as a round, yellow, cheesy mass, usually beginning in the membranes and are usually seen between thirty and fifty.
Recovery.--The chances are better when the disease forms gumma (tumors) than when the blood vessels are diseased.
Last year the day of Abraham’s sacrifice,—and therefore _the_ day of the pilgrimage—(the sermon on Mount Arafat) fell on a Friday, and when that happens there is always a rush, owing to the popular notion that the _Hajj el-Gumma_ (pilgrimage of the Friday) is seven times blessed, or even equivalent to making it seven times in ordinary years.
The gumma does harm by displacing and replacing the normal tissue elements of the part affected, and by involving these in the degenerative changes, of the nature of caseation and necrosis, which produce the destructive lesions of the skin, mucous membranes, and internal organs.
This is true not only of the circumscribed gumma, but of the condition known as _gummatous infiltration_ or _syphilitic cirrhosis_, in which the granulation tissue is diffused throughout the connective-tissue framework of such organs as the tongue or liver.