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ACANTHOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does acanthoma mean?
• ACANTHOMA (noun)
The noun ACANTHOMA has 1 sense:
1. a neoplasm originating in the epidermis
Familiarity information: ACANTHOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A neoplasm originating in the epidermis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
acanthoma; skin tumor
Hypernyms ("acanthoma" is a kind of...):
neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acanthoma"):
keratoacanthoma (skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar)
Context examples
An acanthoma characterized by the presence of psoriasiform epidermal acanthosis and basal cells with pale cytoplasm.
(Clear Cell Acanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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