Definitions for gummas

gummas gum·ma

Spelling: [guhm-uh]
IPA: /ˈgʌm ə/

Gummas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in gummas (agmmsu).

Definitions for gummas

noun

  1. a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.

Origin of gummas

From New Latin, dating back to 1715-25; See origin at gum1

Examples for gummas

Syphilitic osteo-arthritis results from a gumma in the periosteum or marrow of one of the adjacent bones.

Paralysis due to gumma or other cerebral tumor is much slower in its course.

There was the secret ploughing society of the young men of a village in gumma prefecture.

The name of a syphilitic swelling or tumor is gumma (plural, gummata).

The contraction which follows the disappearance of a gumma of the sterno-mastoid may also produce a deformity resembling wry-neck.

Althaus162 also makes three divisions, two of which are as follows: Cerebral tumor—a gumma either hard or soft.

He was introduced as a rural religionist from gumma prefecture set on reforming his countrymen.

The disease is liable to be mistaken for central tumour, gumma, tuberculosis, or abscess of bone.

A gumma is usually situated on the dorsum and more often towards the centre than at the edges.

In this case there was certainly organic disease, probably a gumma on the surface of the right hemisphere.

Word Value for gummas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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