fibroma
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fibromas,
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fibromata
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noun
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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
A soft pedunculated fibroma, about the size of a pea, is commonly met with, especially on the neck and trunk; it is usually solitary, and is easily removed with scissors.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Tumours of Tendon Sheaths.—Innocent tumours, such as lipoma, fibroma, and myxoma, are rare.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
New growths include the fibroma, the myxoma, the myeloma or giant-celled tumour, and various forms of sarcoma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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
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
Polyps are usually fibromas or myxomas, occurring on the mucous membrane of the nasal passages or genital tract.
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
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
Terrier describes double ovariotomy for fibromata in a woman of seventy-seven.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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
Keloids are fibromata of the true skin, which may develop spontaneously or in a scar.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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
Figure 237 represents a case of multiple fibromata of the skin shown by Octerlony.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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