单词 | pseudotumour |
释义 | pseudotumourpseudotumorn. Medicine. 1. A mass or other lesion that gives rise to signs or symptoms suggestive of a neoplasm but is non-neoplastic (usually inflammatory or hyperplastic) in origin. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > pseudotumour pseudotumour1848 phantom tumour1857 1848 W. H. Walshe in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 139/2 Pseudo-tumours, composed essentially of epithelium, and susceptible of vascularization, form, it is affirmed, on some mucous surfaces. 1869 T. H. Tanner Pract. Med. I. iv. x. 426 Sometimes the pseudo-tumour has had its origin in syphilitic caries of the vertebræ. 1898 C. K. Mills Nerv. Syst. & its Dis. v. 503 Tuberous Sclerosis. An interesting form of sclerotic pseudotumor is sometimes found in the brain, especially among the idiotic..and epileptic. 1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xxviii. 308 The Ehler's Danlos syndrome is a tetrad consisting of:—(1) hyperelasticity of the skin; (2) hyperlaxity of the joints. (3) fragility of the skin and blood vessels; (4) molluscous and pseudo-tumours following injury. 1993 Discover Aug. 6/3 He wrote about a woman with pseudotumors in the brain. 2. More fully pseudotumour cerebri. A syndrome characterized by increased intracranial pressure occurring in the absence of an intracranial mass or abnormality of the cerebral ventricles. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders brain damage1864 mind-blindness1888 satellitosis1906 syringobulbia1908 Alzheimer's disease1911 kernicterus1912 pseudotumour1914 brain death1928 punch-drunk1928 Sturge–Weber syndrome1935 Alzheimer1938 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939 Alzheimer1940 Schilder's disease1940 hypsarrhythmia1952 kuru1957 laughing death1957 Minamata disease1957 myelinolysis1959 spongiform encephalopathy1960 CJD1975 old-timer's disease1983 mad —— disease1990 1914 Q. Jrnl. Med. 7 113 The cases discussed..form one of the group sometimes called ‘pseudo-tumour of the brain’. 1930 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 24 1117 Of the 1,209 cases of brain tumor, on file in our clinic, both verified and unverified, 30 have been classified as pseudotumors or arachnitis. 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 227 224/2 It seems probable that most cases of the true ‘pseudotumor cerebri’ syndrome with normal ventricular systems and chemically and cytologically normal cerebrospinal fluid are instances of cerebral edema. 1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxiv. 12/1 A pseudotumour is one of the names given to a syndrome of raised intracranial pressure unassociated with a space-occupying lesion. 2002 J. W. Scadding & J. Gibbs in R. L. Souhami & J. Moxham Textbk. Med. (ed. 4) xxiv. 1358/1 Benign intracranial hypertension..is also known as pseudotumour cerebri, as it may mimic a cerebral tumour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1848 |
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