glioblastoma
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glioblastoma (plural glioblastomas or glioblastomata)
- A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 71:
- Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas—tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute.
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fast-growing tumor of the brain
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- glioblastoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- IPA(key): (Central) [ˌɡli.u.βləsˈto.mə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˌɡli.o.bləsˈto.mə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˌɡli.o.blasˈto.ma]
- Rhymes: -oma
- Hyphenation: gli‧o‧blas‧to‧ma
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glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomes)
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glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomi)
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From glioblasto + -oma.
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glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomas)