adenoma
Americannoun
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adenomas,
plural
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adenomata
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a benign tumor originating in a secretory gland.
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a benign tumor of glandlike structure.
noun
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a tumour, usually benign, occurring in glandular tissue
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a tumour having a glandlike structure
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Etymology
Origin of adenoma
From New Latin, dating back to 1865–70; see origin at aden-, -oma
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She was initially told that, to remove the pleomorphic adenoma, surgeons would have to cut out her largest salivary gland, which contains the facial nerve.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
The specimen, a tubular adenoma, was similar to one removed from Biden in 2008, Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor, physician to the president, wrote in a memo released Wednesday by the White House.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
For conventional adenomas, high-grade dysplasia is related to larger adenoma size and a villous component and is an important risk factor for metastasizing cancer.
From Nature ● Sep. 18, 2013
Although the tissue samples proved benign, doctors concluded the polyp was a villous adenoma, so called because of the villi, or finger-like projections visible under a microscope.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adenoma.—An adenoma is a tumour constructed on the type of, and growing in connection with, a secreting gland.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
However, two specific types of polyps, -- adenomas and serrated polyps -- have the potential to develop into cancer over time.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
The characteristic top-side stem cells on serrated adenomas only arise after the normal stem cells at the bottom of the crypt die, throwing the structure of the entire crypt into disarray.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
Researchers recruited 2,259 patients who had had adenomas — benign tumors of the colon or rectum — removed during a colonoscopy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
All participants had recently had precancerous colon polyps, also called adenomas, removed from their colon.
From US News ● Oct. 14, 2015
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
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
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
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