adenoma
Americannoun
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adenomas,
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adenomata
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a benign tumor originating in a secretory gland.
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a benign tumor of glandlike structure.
noun
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a tumour, usually benign, occurring in glandular tissue
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a tumour having a glandlike structure
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Etymology
Origin of adenoma
From New Latin, dating back to 1865–70; see origin at aden-, -oma
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She was initially told that, to remove the pleomorphic adenoma, surgeons would have to cut out her largest salivary gland, which contains the facial nerve.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
The specimen, a tubular adenoma, was similar to one removed from Biden in 2008, Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor, physician to the president, wrote in a memo released Wednesday by the White House.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
For conventional adenomas, high-grade dysplasia is related to larger adenoma size and a villous component and is an important risk factor for metastasizing cancer.
From Nature ● Sep. 18, 2013
Although the tissue samples proved benign, doctors concluded the polyp was a villous adenoma, so called because of the villi, or finger-like projections visible under a microscope.
From Time Magazine Archive
The names goiter, struma, and bronchocele are applied indiscriminately to all tumors of the thyroid gland; there are, however, several distinct varieties among them that are true adenoma, which, therefore, deserves a place here.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Colorectal tumors can arise from two types of pre-cancerous polyps: conventional adenomas and serrated adenomas.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
Serrated adenomas, on the other hand, are associated with a different type of stem-like cell with fetal characteristics that appears mysteriously at the tops of the crypts.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
But taking vitamin D, calcium, both or neither resulted in no significant difference in the number of adenomas found.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
All participants had recently had precancerous colon polyps, also called adenomas, removed from their colon.
From US News ● Oct. 14, 2015
Mucous cysts, dermoids, adenomas, lipomas, and fibromas are occasionally met with.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
These primary growths include primary papillomata and fibromata as the most frequent, aberrant thyroid, lipomata, adenomata, granulomata and amyloid tumors.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Cases of retention, epithelial and dermoid cysts have been observed; and there are isolated reports of the finding of papillomata, fibromata, lipomata, myomata and adenomata.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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