fibroma
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fibromas,
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fibromata
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Fitzpatrick learned he had a non-ossifying fibroma, a void in the bone of his upper right arm, when he suffered a fracture trying to deliver a pitch as a 12-year-old.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2010
Fitzpatrick eventually ended up at Childrens hospital, where he learned he had a non-ossifying fibroma.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2010
Soft or firm elevations, usually large and prominent, and having their seat in the corium and subcutaneous tissue; as, for example, sebaceous tumors, gummata, and the lesions of fibroma.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Tumours of Tendon Sheaths.—Innocent tumours, such as lipoma, fibroma, and myxoma, are rare.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The multiple, soft fibroma known as molluscum fibrosum, which depends upon a neuro-fibromatosis of the cutaneous nerves, is described with the tumours of nerves.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
When fibromas develop from the lining or covering tissues they frequently form papillary growths, more or less thickly covered with epithelium, and are then called papillomas, or warts.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Treatment.—The treatment of large fibromas is surgical and consists of the operative removal of the tumor, followed by suturing of the wound.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Hard fibromas occurring singly or in groups may be met with, especially in the skin of the buttock, and may present a local malignancy, recurring after removal like the “recurrent fibroid” of Paget.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Hydatid cysts and fibromas are also met with in this situation, and they too may be multiple.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Polyps are usually fibromas or myxomas, occurring on the mucous membrane of the nasal passages or genital tract.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Keloids are fibromata of the true skin, which may develop spontaneously or in a scar.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Those chiefly met with are dermoids, fibromata, sarcomata and epitheliomata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
In the meninges we may find glioma, cancers, and psammoma, fibromata; aneurisms of the spinal arteries have been discovered in the spinal canal.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Figure 237 represents a case of multiple fibromata of the skin shown by Octerlony.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Surgeons do not remove fibromata merely as a precaution, as they sometimes do in the case of ovarian cysts.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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