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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STRUMA

From Latin: a scrofulous tumour, from struere to heap up.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STRUMA

struma  [ˈstruːmə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRUMA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Struma is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STRUMA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Struma

Struma may refer to: ▪ Struma, a swelling in the neck due to an enlarged thyroid gland ▪ MV Struma, a ship chartered to carry Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine in World War II ▪ Struma, a mycobacterial skin disease ▪ Struma motorway, a planned motorway which will lead from the Daskalovo junction 5 kilometres away from Sofia to the Bulgarian border Kulata with Greece ▪ Struma, a river in Bulgaria and Greece ▪ Struma Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica...

Definition of struma in the English dictionary

The definition of struma in the dictionary is an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland; goitre. Other definition of struma is a swelling, esp one at the base of a moss capsule.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRUMA


assumer
əˈsjuːmə
bloomer
ˈbluːmə
boomer
ˈbuːmə
consumer
kənˈsjuːmə
costumer
ˈkɒstjuːmə
duma
ˈduːmə
empyreuma
ˌɛmpɪˈruːmə
fumer
ˈfjuːmə
groomer
ˈɡruːmə
huma
ˈhuːmə
humor
ˈhjuːmə
humour
ˈhjuːmə
Nkrumah
əŋˈkruːmə
puma
ˈpjuːmə
rumor
ˈruːmə
rumour
ˈruːmə
shroomer
ˈʃruːmə
Sumer
ˈsuːmə
tumour
ˈtjuːmə
Zuma
ˈzuːmə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRUMA

structure
structured
structureless
strudel
struggle
struggle for existence
struggler
struggling
strugglingly
strum
strumae
strumatic
strumitis
strummed
strummel
strummer
strumming
strumose
strumous
strumpet

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRUMA

Ancohuma
barotrauma
curcuma
douma
fusuma
lucuma
luma
mazuma
ouma
papauma
pneuma
satsuma
State Duma
trauma

Synonyms and antonyms of struma in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «struma» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRUMA

Find out the translation of struma to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of struma from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «struma» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

甲状腺肿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

struma
570 millions of speakers

English

struma
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

STRUMA
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سلعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

зоб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

struma
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

struma
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

struma
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Struma
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Struma
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

甲状腺腫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

난소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Struma
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bướu cổ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

struma
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गळचेपी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

guatr
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

struma
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

struma
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зоб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Struma
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χοιράς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Struma
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

struma
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Struma
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of struma

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRUMA»

The term «struma» is regularly used and occupies the 91.211 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STRUMA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «struma» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «struma» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about struma

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRUMA»

Discover the use of struma in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to struma and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blaustein's Pathology of the Female Genital Tract
cated.117 Response to radiation and chemotherapy is unsatisfactory.80'117 Struma Ovarii General Features Thyroid tissue is a relatively frequent constituent of mature cystic teratoma and has been demonstrated in 5%-20% of cases. Struma ...
Ancel Blaustein, Robert J. Kurman, 2002
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Death on the Black Sea
In Death on the Black Sea, the story of the Struma, its passengers, and the events that led to its destruction are investigated and fully revealed in two vivid, parallel accounts, set six decades apart.
Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins, 2009
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The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, ...
The author establishes three chief forms of goitre, according as one of the three anatomical constituents of the gland— the acini, the vessels, or the fibrous stroma — is predominantly affected ; they are termed, respectively, 1, struma glandulosa  ...
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Gynecologic Oncology
2.8.1. Struma ovarii. Thyroid tissue occurs in 5-15% of teratomas [44, 45, 51, 62, 63]. The term struma ovarii, however, is reserved for neoplasms in which thyroid tissue represents more than half of the tumor. At least 17% of struma ovarii are ...
C.T. Griffiths, Arlan F. Fuller, 1983
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Teaching the Holocaust
The Struma was to sail to Istanbul where the passengers hoped to obtain immigration visas for Palestine. After one-hour at sea, the Struma's engines gave out and the boat was towed to Istanbul. For 10 weeks, the Turkish authorities kept the ...
Simone Schweber, Debbie Findling, 2007
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Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology: An Atlas and ...
Struma ovarii. In this example, the presence of a microfollicular pattern imparts a resemblance to granulosa cell tumor. transcription factor-1 (TTF1).331,332 If one of these difficult patterns is encountered during an intraoperative frozen sec- tion  ...
Roger A. Reichert, 2012
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Atlas of Gynecologic Surgical Pathology: Expert Consult: Online
The former marker is more specific as some surface epithelial tumors are TTF1+. Squamoid cell nests typically are negative with these markers but are positive for cytokeratins and p63. Differential diagnosis □ Cystadenoma (vs cystic struma).
Philip B. Clement, Robert H. Young, 2013
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Werner & Ingbar's The Thyroid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text
Severe ophthalmopathy developing after treatment of coexisting malignant struma ovarii and Graves' disease. Thyroid 2009;19:1125–1127. Joja I, Asakawa T, Mitsumori A, et al. I-123 uptake in nonfunctional struma ovarii. Clin Nucl Med 1998 ...
Lewis E. Braverman, David S. Cooper, 2012
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Gynecological Imaging: A Reference Guide to Diagnosis
Joja I, Asakawa T, Mitsumori A, et a1 (1998) I-123 uptake in nonfunctional struma ovarii. Clin Nucl Med 23:10—12; Gershenson DM, Del Junco G, Silva EG, Copeland LJ, Wharton JT, Rutledge FN (1986) Immature teratoma of the ovary.
Jean Noel Buy, Michel A. Ghossain, 2013
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Thyroid Cancer in Clinical Practice
Struma ovarii is a teratoma in which more than 50% is thyroid. Struma ovarii can be asymptomatic, it can present as an ovarian mass, it is a rare cause of thyrotoxicosis, and it can produce ascites.“ A struma ovarii should be removed surgically ...
I. Ross McDougall, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRUMA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term struma is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bulgarian Regional Minister: Section of Struma Motorway to be …
Bulgarian Regional Minister Lilyana Pavlova said on Tuesday that the section of Struma motorway between the town of Sandanski and the border checkpoint ... «Novinite.com, Jul 15»
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Early Launch of Struma Highway's Lot 4
The last 3 kilometers of lot 4 to the Struma highway will be opened for traffic on Thursday afternoon. The two-way traffic will be allowed in order to alleviate ... «Novinite.com, Jul 15»
3
Bulgaria's Struma motorway to be ready by August 1: PM
Sofia. “Struma motorway will be fully finalised by August 1. Until then the road facility will be partially launched in exploitation so as to ease the traffic,” Bulgarian ... «Focus News, Jul 15»
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Regional Development Minister visits at place the construction of …
LOT 2 stretch of Struma motorway connects Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad. Its total length is 37,48km. The project amounts at around BGN 362 million. It is expected ... «Focus News, Jun 15»
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Greek Aktor Working Round-the-Clock to Finish Struma Motorway …
Asphalt is now being laid on the Struma motorway section between Sandanski and Kulata, whose completion has been repeatedly delayed. The 15-kilometer ... «Novinite.com, Jun 15»
6
Lot 3.2 of Bulgaria's Struma motorway biggest challenge in new …
"We have been holding a debate for almost a year on one of the biggest projects – Lot 3.2 of Struma motorway. A decision was made years ago on its becoming ... «Focus News, May 15»
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Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover Roman Villa near Struma
A Roman villa from the time of Constantine the Great was discovered by archaeologists along the route of the Struma motorway near the western village of ... «Novinite.com, May 15»
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Turkish government commemorates Jews killed in 1942 'Struma
For the first time, the Turkish government hosted a commemoration event for 768 Jews killed on the Struma refugee ship, which was torpedoed by a Soviet ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Feb 15»
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Ceremony for Struma victims to be held in Istanbul for first time
Turkey has issued a commemoration message the first time ever for the Struma tragedy, in which 764 Jews died in the Black Sea while trying to escaping the ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Feb 15»
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Two Bulgarian Ministers to Inspect Construction of Struma Motorway
Minister of Regional Development Lilyana Pavlova and Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski will inspect the progress of the construction of Struma motorway on ... «Novinite.com, Feb 15»

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