granuloma
Americannoun
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granulomas,
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granulomata
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noun
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It turned out the tumour between his eye socket and brain was a cholesterol granuloma, which is a type of benign cyst.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2025
The study, "Normalizing granuloma vasculature and matrix improves drug delivery and reduces bacterial burden in tuberculosis-infected rabbits," was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Now, she said, she has a calcified granuloma that makes it difficult to carry things or stand for long periods.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
The academic world tends to cluster by model system: "Mouse people" talk to mouse people; "monkey people" talk to monkey people; each group exists within its own fibrous granuloma of meetings, conferences and review committees.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2011
The ulcerated lesions of farcy have to be distinguished from those of tubercle, syphilis, and other forms of infective granuloma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Additionally, Datta's graduate student Maksym Zarodniuk analyzed genome sequencing data produced by the team, and found that even without antibiotics, there was a reduction in tuberculosis bacteria within the granulomas.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Those eggs clog the lungs, spleen, liver and hearts of hosts along with immune cells called granulomas that fight them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
As a result, people with the disease are susceptible to recurrent infections and get areas of inflamed tissue called granulomas.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2016
These granulomas create too much activated vitamin D, which in turn causes the absorption of excessive amounts of calcium.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2011
"It's the structure of those granulomas that makes it so difficult to treat TB," says Barry.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2011
Mycosis fungoides approximates, clinically and histologically, granulomata and sarcomata.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
These primary growths include primary papillomata and fibromata as the most frequent, aberrant thyroid, lipomata, adenomata, granulomata and amyloid tumors.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Virchow grouped together under the term granulomata certain growths composed of granulation-tissue occurring in syphilis, lupus, leprosy, and glanders.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
As a result of prolonged inflammation edematous polypi and granulomata are not infrequently seen, but true benign tumors of the esophagus are rare affections.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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