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ANGIOMA
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Irregular inflected form: angiomata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("angioma" is a kind of...):
angiopathy (any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts)
neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angioma"):
haemangioma; hemangioma (benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks)
lymphangioma (benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels)
spider angioma; spider nevus; vascular spider (a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate)
Derivation:
angiomatous (of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma)
