chloroman.
/klɒˈrəʊmə/ Pathology.
A disease of the bones characterized by greenish tumours; a form of plasmocytoma.
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1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 402/1 Chloroma, a very rare tumor, agrees in structure with the round-cell sarcoma, and contains in its cells a bright green pigment.
1906 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 90 ii. 566 Acute and chronic lymphatic leucæmia and chloroma are all essentially the same.
1908 Practitioner Feb. 245 Most cases of chloroma are characterised by the presence of a lymphocythaemia.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxxiii. 530 Hæmopoietic tumours may occur—the various types of reticular tumour..and chloroma.
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