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单词 pseudotumour
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pseudotumourpseudotumorn.

Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəʊˌtjuːmə/, U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌt(j)umər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, tumour n.
Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + tumour n. With sense 1 compare French pseudo-tumeur (1869 or earlier), German Pseudotumor (1897 or earlier). In sense 2 after scientific Latin pseudotumor cerebri (M. Nonne 1907, in Deutsche Zeitschr. f. Nervenheilkunde 33 317).
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.
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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.
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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).
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