osteoma

American  

[os-tee-oh-muh] / ˌɒs tiˈoʊ mə /

noun

Pathology.

plural

osteomas, osteomata

1. a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.

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osteoma British  

/ ˌɒstɪˈəʊmə /

noun

1. a benign tumour composed of bone or bonelike tissue

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Etymology

Origin of osteoma

First recorded in 1840–50; oste- + -oma

Example Sentences

The pneumatocele’s likely cause, an MRI would show, was an osteoma, or benign bone tumor, that had formed in the man’s sinus and was eroding through the base of the skull, Brown said.

From Seattle Times

Its development from fibrous tissue is more likely to result in a fibroma; from fat tissue, a lipoma, or a myxoma; from cartilage or bone, a chondroma or osteoma.

From Project Gutenberg

Less frequently fibroma, osteoma, and parasitic, hæmorrhagic, and other cysts are met with.

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Lymphoma, enchondroma and osteoma, if not too extensively involving the laryngeal walls, may be excised with basket punch forceps, but lymphoma is probably better treated by radium.*

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Clinically, the osteoma forms a hard, indolent tumour attached to a bone.

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