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Definition of Scrofulous
1. Adjective. Afflicted with scrofula.
2. Adjective. Morally contaminated. "Denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times"
3. Adjective. Having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula. "Our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"
Definition of Scrofulous
1. a. Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.
Definition of Scrofulous
1. Adjective. of, related to, or suffering from scrofula ¹
2. Adjective. morally degenerate; corrupt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrofulous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Scrofulous
1. Relating to or suffering from scrofula. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrofulous
Literary usage of Scrofulous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"In the first one Dr. Allbutt, with many rhetorical flowers, makes clear his
opinions upon the etiology and pathology of scrofulous neck. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"In illustration of its course and treatment, the following case is given: A girl,
nged 8, of scrofulous constitution, has had the eyes slightly bloodshot ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1885)
"He made use of tuberculous material from the lungs, and of scrofulous lymphatic
glands. These materials were pounded up and filtered before use; ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1840)
"M. Lugol proposed to himself the question whether scrofulous diseases ought to be
... The production of scrofulous diseases, however, by hereditary descent, ..."
5. Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine by Robert James Graves (1864)
"It is a very dangerous thing for a person of a scrofulous habit to get an attack of
... If persons be weakly, unhealthy, and of a scrofulous constitution, ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"In illustration of its course and treatment, the following case is given: A girl,
aged 8, of scrofulous constitution, has had the eyes slightly bloodshot ..."
7. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"relation exists between scrofulous and non- scrofulous animals of the same species
as exists between the scrofulous and non- scrofulous in man. ..."
8. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"We may therefore say that scrofulous ophthalmia is inflammation of the eye ...
scrofulous Constitution.—All mankind are not formed after one pattern ; if it ..."
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