glioman.
/ɡlʌɪˈəʊmə/, U.S. /ɡlaɪˈoʊmə/ Pathology.
‘A tumour originating from, and largely consisting of, the neuroglia cells of the central nervous system, esp. of the brain’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1885).
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testudoc1400
Talpa1684
glioma1870
psammoma1872
myxoglioma1878
gliomatosis1886
gliosis1892
cephalhaematoma1900
meningioma1922
medulloblastoma1925
glioblastoma multiforme1926
space-occupying lesion1937
neuroglioblastoma1985
1870 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. (ed. 3) 471 A group of tumours to which Virchow has given the name Glioma.
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 121.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. iii. 109 Such growths are commonly found in the young; Virchow has named them gliomata [margin Glioma].
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