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fibroma

American  
[fahy-broh-muh] / faɪˈbroʊ mə /

noun

Pathology.
  • fibromas,
    plural
  • fibromata
    plural
  1. a tumor consisting essentially of fibrous tissue.


fibroma British  
/ faɪˈbrəʊmə /

noun

  1. a benign tumour derived from fibrous connective tissue

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of fibroma

First recorded in 1840–50; fibr- + -oma

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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

They are sharply circumscribed and, as a rule, are very hard, a condition owing usually to combination with fibroma and are then known as fibromyoma.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

In these conditions, a malignant transformation of the fibroma into sarcoma is to be suspected.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

In fact, the clinical differentiation between myoma and fibroma is almost impossible.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple fibromata of the skin sometimes occur in enormous numbers and cover the whole surface of the body; they are often accompanied by pendulous tumors of enormous size.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

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