adenomatous
- a word derived from adenoma.
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Researchers administered high doses to patients with familial adenomatous polyposis--a devastating disease in which the colon can become so overrun with polyps that the entire organ must be removed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The body of the uterus may also be the seat of adenomatous disease.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
The disease is frequently associated with adenomatous disease of the cervix, formerly called erosion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
The matrix of the tumour is made up of cartilaginous, myxomatous, sarcomatous, or angiomatous tissue, the proportion of these different elements varying in individual specimens, and it may include some portions that are adenomatous.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
According to Osler the tubercula dolorosa or true fascicular neuroma is not always made up of nerve-fibers, but, as shown by Hoggan, may be an adenomatous growth of the sweat-glands.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
