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What is a gumma?

What is a gumma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) a soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis.
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Gumma formation may begin as soon as a year after infection but is most likely to occur 15 years after the initial infection.
Paralysis due to gumma or other cerebral tumor is much slower in its course.
The life-history of an untreated gumma varies with its environment.
He was introduced as a rural religionist from gumma prefecture set on reforming his countrymen.
The disease is liable to be mistaken for central tumour, gumma, tuberculosis, or abscess of bone.
There was the secret ploughing society of the young men of a village in gumma prefecture.

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