Advertisement
Advertisement
adenosis
[ ad-n-oh-sis ]
noun
Pathology.
- abnormal development or enlargement of glandular tissue.
- any disease of a gland.
Discover More
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse