EPITHELIOMA (epitheliomata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: epitheliomata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does epithelioma mean? 

• EPITHELIOMA (noun)
  The noun EPITHELIOMA has 1 sense:

1. a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue

  Familiarity information: EPITHELIOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPITHELIOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("epithelioma" is a kind of...):

skin cancer (a malignant neoplasm of the skin)

 Context examples 

An epithelioma characterized by the absence of keratin production.

(Non-Keratinizing Epithelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of pilosebaceous hamartoma characterized by basal cell epitheliomata, epidermoid cysts and comedones, and epidermal atrophy.

(Basal Cell Nevus with Comedones, NCI Thesaurus)