Plummer's disease
Plummer's disease (plum-erz) n. a hyperfunctioning, usually benign, adenoma of the thyroid gland, which can be palpated and appears as a ‘hot nodule’ on radioactive thyroid scanning. [ H. S. Plummer (1874–1937), US physician]
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