lymphosarcoma

American  

[lim-foh-sahr-koh-muh] / ˌlɪm foʊ sɑrˈkoʊ mə /

noun

Pathology.

1. a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.

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Etymology

Origin of lymphosarcoma

From New Latin, dating back to 1870–75; see origin at lympho-, sarcoma

Example Sentences

The speaker is Sandy, a pretty, warm-eyed young widow who had been pregnant with her second child when doctors had diagnosed her husband's lymphosarcoma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reinbach has found them in a case of lymphosarcoma with metastases in the bone-marrow.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

Besides these he describes a case of lymphosarcoma of the neck with metastases in the bone-marrow, in which an unexampled increase of the white blood corpuscles, and especially of the eosinophil cells was found.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

Out of 40 cases examined, in only one, of lymphosarcoma complicated with tuberculosis, were myelocytes found in the blood, amounting to about 0.5-1.0% of the white blood corpuscles.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

Reinbach indeed once found about 60,000 eosinophil cells per mm.3 in a case of lymphosarcoma of the neck with metastases in the bone-marrow.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.