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ADENOMA
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Irregular inflected form: adenomata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("adenoma" is a kind of...):
benign tumor; benign tumour; nonmalignant neoplasm; nonmalignant tumor; nonmalignant tumour (a tumor that is not cancerous)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adenoma"):
fibroadenoma (benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen)
lymphadenoma (an abnormally enlarged lymph node)
Context examples:
A usually non-functioning variant of adrenal cortex adenoma, composed of large cells with abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
(Adrenal Cortex Oncocytic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of primary neoplasms include astrocytoma, meningioma, pituitary adenoma, and neurilemoma.
(Adult Central Nervous System Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include adenoma, paraganglioma, and carcinoma.
(Middle Ear Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A very rare pleomorphic adenoma of the salivary glands that metastasizes inexplicably, despite the benign histopathologic features.
(Metastasizing Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Salivary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition in which multiple adenomas develop in the gastrointestinal tract.
(Multiple Adenomatous Polyps, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients with MEN 1 may develop hyperparathyroidism and parathyroid gland adenomas, pituitary gland adenomas, pancreatic islet cell neoplasms, and carcinoid tumors.
(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include oncocytic adenomas of the thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, and pituitary gland.
(Oncocytic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
In a later study, most common neoplasms of animal over one year of age: atrioclaval mesotheliomas 12%, lung adenomas 10% (males), pituitary adenomas 23%, mammary tumors 7%, liver tumors 3%, cervical tumors 3% (in females) (Goodall and Doesburg 1981).
(NZR, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
A monomorphic or pleomorphic adenoma that arises from the salivary glands in the oral cavity.
(Oral Cavity Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A corticotropin secreting adenoma that has developed in an ovarian dermoid cyst.
(Ovarian Dermoid Cyst with Corticotropin Secreting Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
