Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A benign epithelial tumor having a glandular origin and structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tumor presenting the characteristics of the gland from which it springs; a tumor originating in a gland, and presenting the general character of racemose or of tubular glands. Also called
adenocele .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A benign
tumour of theepithelium arising from or resembling agland .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin
Etymologies
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Examples
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If another mutation allows this ensemble of cheats to grow, it could give rise to what is called an adenoma.
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Colon cancer in humans also underwent graded and discrete changes in its progression, from a noninvasive premalignant lesion called an adenoma to the highly invasive terminal stage called an invasive carcinoma.
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Colon cancer in humans also underwent graded and discrete changes in its progression, from a noninvasive premalignant lesion called an adenoma to the highly invasive terminal stage called an invasive carcinoma.
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Colon cancer in humans also underwent graded and discrete changes in its progression, from a noninvasive premalignant lesion called an adenoma to the highly invasive terminal stage called an invasive carcinoma.
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Fetal adenoma, which is a formation of gland tissue from the remains of fetal structures in the gland; 3.
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Fetal adenoma, which is a formation of gland tissue from the remains of fetal structures in the gland; 3.
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There is reason to believe that the tumours of the parotid previously described as adenoma, chondroma, angioma, myxoma, and many of the cases of sarcoma, were really mixed tumours in which one or other of these tissues predominated.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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Hyperthyroidism is caused by a benign tumor of the thyroid gland called an adenoma.
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Separately, they showed no effect on premalignant polyps called adenoma cells, causing programmed cell suicide know as apoptosis.
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Separately, they showed no effect on premalignant polyps called adenoma cells, causing programmed cell suicide know as apoptosis.
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