scrofula

[Lat. scrofulæ=a swelling of the glands of the neck, from scrofa =a sow, an animal which was supposed to be particularly liable to such swellings; Fr. scrofules; Ital. scrofula, scrof ola; Sp. escrofula; Port. escrofulas.] Pathol.: A constitutional state, hereditary or acquired, known also as Struma, leading up to the development of tubercles, though it is only when that state is fully developed that tubercles are deposited. Previously, the scrofulons subject is ansæmic, feeble, and liable to suppurative and ulcerative states of the skin and other parts of the body, scrip'-ture-wõrt, subst . [Eng. scripture, and frequently with prematurely active mental power, Bot.: The genus Opegrapha (q. v.). wort.] which is proportionately early exhausted. The glands are specially liable to scrofular, particularly those at the side of the neck and under the angles remedies for this condition.