OSTEOMA (osteomata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: osteomata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does osteoma mean? 

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

1. a slow growing benign tumor of consisting of bone tissue; usually on the skull or mandible

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTEOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slow growing benign tumor of consisting of bone tissue; usually on the skull or mandible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

benign tumor; benign tumour; nonmalignant neoplasm; nonmalignant tumor; nonmalignant tumour (a tumor that is not cancerous)

 Context examples 

The tumor is composed of woven bone trabeculae and shares similar histologic characteristics with the osteoid osteoma.

(Osteoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include lipoma, leiomyoma, hemangioma, fibroma, and osteoma.

(Benign Connective and Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by multiple colonic polyps predisposing to carcinoma of the colon, osteomas of the skull, epidermoid cysts, and fibromas.

(Gardner Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include chondroma, osteoma, and osteosarcoma.

(Extraskeletal Cartilaginous and Osseous Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include benign fibrous histiocytoma of bone, osteoma, osteoblastoma, chondroblastoma, and enchondroma.

(Benign Bone Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A phenotypic variant of ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI featuring multiple colonic polyposis with malignant tendency, subcutaneous fibromata and lipomata, exostoses and osteomas of the skull and facial bones, and epidermal inclusion cysts.

(Gardner Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)