NEPHROBLASTOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nephroblastoma mean? 

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

1. malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPHROBLASTOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

adenomyosarcoma; embryoma of the kidney; nephroblastoma; Wilms' tumor; Wilms tumour

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

sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)

 Context examples 

It includes the cystic partially differentiated nephroblastoma and cases in which nephroblastomatous elements are not present.

(Childhood Multilocular Cystic Renal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, embryonal neoplasms and nephroblastoma.

(H19 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)