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buckskin (medicine) and struma (iou)


buckskin (medicine)


buckskin


1. The skin of a buck.

2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in colour, made of deerskin.

3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. "Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man." (Burns)

4. Breeches made of buckskin. "I have alluded to his buckskin." (Thackeray)

Source: Websters Dictionary


struma (iou)



struma noun. . M16.
[mod. Latin from Latin = scrofulous swelling.]
1. Medicine. Orig., scrofula, a scrofulous swelling. Now, (a) swelling of the thyroid gland, (a) goitre. M16.
struma lymphomatosa = HASHIMOTO's disease.
Botany. A similar swelling in a plant, as at the junction of the petiole and the leaf-blade and at the base of the capsule in certain mosses. M19.
stru'matic adjective (rare) suffering from struma M17.
strumatous adjective (rare) = strumatic L19.
stru'mitis noun (Medicine) inflammation of a goitrous thyroid gland L19.