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    SCROFULA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glandsplay

    Synonyms:

    king's evil; scrofula; struma

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("scrofula" is a kind of...):

    T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))

    Derivation:

    scrofulous (afflicted with scrofula)

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