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BLASTOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blastoma mean?
• BLASTOMA (noun)
The noun BLASTOMA has 1 sense:
1. a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells
Familiarity information: BLASTOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
blastocytoma; blastoma; embryonal carcinosarcoma
Hypernyms ("blastoma" is a kind of...):
neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)
Context examples
The prognosis is better compared to the biphasic pulmonary blastoma. —2003
(Epithelial Predominant Pulmonary Blastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A pulmonary blastoma composed of a mixture of irregular tubular structures and mesenchymal elements.
(Biphasic Pulmonary Blastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-encapsulated, well defined pulmonary blastoma, composed of irregular tubular structures.
(Epithelial Predominant Pulmonary Blastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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