glioblastoma

English

Etymology

From glio- +‎ blastoma.

Noun

glioblastoma (plural glioblastomas or glioblastomata)

1. 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.

   • 2018 November 4, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Hardy Fox, of the Avant-Garde Band the Residents (Maybe), Dies at 73”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Hardy Fox […] died on Oct. 30 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 73. His husband, Steven Kloman, said the cause was glioblastoma.

Hypernyms

• blastoma
• tumor

Derived terms

• glioblastomal
• glioblastoma multiforme

 

Translations

fast-growing tumor of the brain

• Catalan: glioblastoma m
• Finnish: glioblastooma
• French: glioblastome (fr) m
• German: Glioblastom (de) n
• Greek: γλοιοβλάστωμα (el) n (gloiovlástoma)
• Hungarian: glioblasztóma
• Italian: glioblastoma (it) m
• Russian: глиобластóма f (glioblastóma)
• Spanish: glioblastoma m
• Swedish: glioblastom c
• Turkish: glioblastom

Further reading

• glioblastoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˌɡli.u.βləsˈto.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˌɡli.o.bləsˈto.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˌɡli.o.blasˈto.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Hyphenation: gli‧o‧blas‧to‧ma

Noun

glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomes)

1. (oncology) glioblastoma

Italian

Noun

glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomi)

1. (oncology) glioblastoma

Spanish

Etymology

From glioblasto +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡljoblasˈtoma/ [ɡljo.β̞lasˈt̪o.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: glio‧blas‧to‧ma

Noun

glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomas)

1. glioblastoma