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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

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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 . (more info) because swine were supposed to be subject to such a complaint, or by a fanciful comparison of the glandular swellings to little pigs;

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• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• DEVELOPMENT
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  The plural of that. See That.
• MARK
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• DEGENERATION
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• MARKSMAN
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  1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown. 2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a
• DISEASEFULNESS
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