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Scrofula: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
Scrofula (mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis) is an infection in the lymph nodes of your neck . It causes a swollen, sometimes discolored mass that's usually painless. The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) is the most common cause. Nontuberculous mycobacteria can also cause it.
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Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis - Wikipedia
Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, also known historically as scrofula and the king's evil, involves a lymphadenitis of the cervical (neck) lymph nodes ...
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Scrofula: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Scrofula is usually caused by breathing in air that is contaminated with mycobacterium bacteria. The bacteria then travel from the lungs to ...
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scrofula
scrofula (ˈskrɒfjʊlə) Also 5–9 scrophula, 6 skurfula, 7–8 schrophula; pl. 5–7 scrophule, 7 scrofulæ. [In early use pl. after late L. scrōfulæ swelling of the glands, dim. of scrōfa breeding sow (supposed to be subject to the disease: cf. the use of Gr. χοιράδες, pl. of χοιράς like a hog's back). Lat...
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Practice Essentials, Pathophysiology of Scrofula, Epidemiology of ...
Scrofula, the Latin word for brood sow, it is the term applied to tuberculosis (TB) of the neck. Tuberculosis is the oldest documented ...
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Scrofula: Definition, Pictures, and Symptoms - Healthline
Scrofula is a condition in which the bacteria that causes tuberculosis causes symptoms outside the lungs. This usually takes the form of inflamed and irritated ...
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Scrophularia
The name Scrophularia comes from scrofula, a form of tuberculosis, because several species have been used in herbal medicine for this disease.
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Scrofula: Tuberculosis of the Throat - WebMD
Scrofula, also called cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis, is a type of tuberculosis infection. It's caused by the same bacteria that causes pulmonary ...
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Scrofula, the king's evil - PMC
Tuberculous lymphadenitis (scrofula) was known as the “king's evil” in Europe, where the royal touch was believed to cure the disease until the 18th century.
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Scrofula: Definition, causes, and treatment - MedicalNewsToday
Scrofula is a form of TB infection that occurs outside of the lungs. The main symptom is inflamed lymph nodes in the neck, causing the neck to swell on one ...
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Scrofula: emergency department presentation and characteristics
Cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis or scrofula is the most common form of extra-pulmonary TB and is the presenting form of the disease in 5% of the cases.
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Scrofula | Description, Cause, Symptoms, & Treatment - Britannica
Scrofula, condition caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in which the organism infects the lymph nodes of the neck.
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scrofula
scrofula/ˈskrɔfjulə; `skrɔfjələ/ n[U]disease causing swelling of the glands, probably a form of tuberculosis 淋巴结核.
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Scrofuloderma
See also
Scrofula
Skin lesion
List of cutaneous conditions
Tuberculosis
References
External links
Mycobacterium-related cutaneous conditions
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scrofulo-
scrofulo- (ˈskrɒfjʊləʊ) used as combining form of scrofula, forming adjs. with the sense ‘characterized by scrofula and {ddd}’.1878 A. M. Hamilton Nervous Dis. 59 The children..were generally scrofulous or scrofulorachitic. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 473 The chronic scrofulo-tuberculous gummata...
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