glomus

[gloh-muhs]

noun

Anatomy.

plural

glomera, glomi 

1. a small globular body.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glomus¹

1830–40; < New Latin, Latin: ball-shaped mass

Example Sentences

The hand surgeon spotted the telltale bluish discoloration on Gardner’s fingernail that indicated a glomus tumor.

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She had previously seen more than half a dozen specialists, several of whom thought she had a pinched nerve in her neck; all had missed the rare, exquisitely painful vascular growth under her fingernail called a glomus tumor.

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Riemer said that her internist had never heard of a glomus tumor but referred her to a hand surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Pensy has submitted a description of Gardner’s case, which he says may represent the longest undiagnosed glomus tumor on record, for publication in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Trauma aside, a bluish or bluish-red, painful, solitary lesion in a distal digit is a glomus tumor until proven otherwise.

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