adenosis
Americannoun
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abnormal development or enlargement of glandular tissue.
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any disease of a gland.
Etymology
Origin of adenosis
Example Sentences
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The pathologist Donald Gleason, who invented Gleason scoring for prostate tumors, wanted to rename a very common tumor — the so-called Gleason 3 + 3 — “adenosis” instead of cancer, Dr. Brawley said.
From New York Times
She then rushed her daughter Gwendolyn, 23, to a doctor and discovered that she was afflicted with a condition known as adenosis, an abnormal cell formation also tied to DES offspring, and sometimes a precursor of cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although thousands of young women whose mothers took DES have developed the adenosis formation, so far fewer than 200 of them are known to be suffering from the cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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