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What (who) is SCROFULA - definition
HUMAN MEDICAL CONDITION
Scrophula; Scrofulae; King's evil; Scrofulous; Struma (skin disease); Scrofulas; Scrophulas; The King's Evil; The King's evil; King's Evil; King’s evil; Scrofula; Scroffula; Scrufola; Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis
scrofula
n.
Struma, king's evil.
scrofula
['skr?fj?l?]
¦ noun chiefly historical a disease with glandular swellings, probably a form of tuberculosis.
Derivatives
scrofulous adjective
Origin
ME: from med. L., dimin. of L. scrofa 'breeding sow' (said to be subject to the disease).
Scrofula
·noun A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).
Wikipedia
Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis
The disease mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, also known as scrofula and historically as king's evil, involves a lymphadenitis of the cervical lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis as well as nontuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria.
Examples of use of SCROFULA
1. The healing powers of Deeside water were first noted 250 years ago when a woman was cured of scrofula – an infection of glands in the neck – after bathing in and drinking the waters.
2. It‘s one of the main reasons my house is full of gin and scrofula and that I maintain my increasingly expensive subscriptions to Casual Racism Monthly, Puling Hypocrisy Gazette and the I Love Florins fan club.