lymphoma
English edit
Etymology edit
From lymph, from Latin lympha (“water”) and -oma (“disease, morbidity”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɪmˈfoʊ.mə/
Noun edit
lymphoma (countable and uncountable, plural lymphomata or lymphomas)
- (oncology, pathology) A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.
- 1867, Reginald Southey, The Nature and Affinities of Tubercle: Being the Gulstonian Lectures for the Year 1867:
- In the one sub-class, we have the Leukaemic Lymphoma, the Typhous Lymphoma, the Hyperplastic Lymphoma (ex. the simple hypertrophied tonsil), Lympho-sarcoma, Scrofulous Glands; and in the other sub-class, Tubercle of man, and Perlsucht or Parresyge, or Morbus Gallicus, the pearl distemper of ruminating animals.
Hypernyms edit
Derived terms edit
- adenolymphoma
- angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
- Burkitt lymphoma
- Burkitt's lymphoma
- diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- lymphomagenesis
- lymphomagenic
- lymphomatogenesis
- lymphomatoid
- lymphomatosis
- lymphomatous
- MALT lymphoma
- neurolymphoma
- non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- pseudolymphoma
Translations edit
malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
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Interlingua edit
Noun edit
lymphoma (plural lymphomas)