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FIBROMA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: fibromata   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Nonmalignant tumor of connective tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fibroma" 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 "fibroma"):

fibroid; fibroid tumor (benign tumor containing fibrous tissue (especially in the uterus))

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 Context examples: 

Representative examples include fibrofolliculoma, perifollicular fibroma, pilar leiomyoma, and trichogenic myxoma.

(Benign Pilar-Associated Mesenchyme Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include serous cystadenoma, mucinous cystadenoma, clear cell adenofibroma, benign Brenner tumor, thecoma, and fibroma.

(Benign Ovarian Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include lipoma, leiomyoma, hemangioma, fibroma, and osteoma.

(Benign Connective and Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign neoplasm, morphologically a fibroma with osseous components.

(Experimental Organism Benign Bone Osteofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include benign Sertoli cell tumor, thecoma, and fibroma.

(Benign Testicular Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of fibroma characterized by increased cellularity.

(Cellular Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by multiple colonic polyps predisposing to carcinoma of the colon, osteomas of the skull, epidermoid cysts, and fibromas.

(Gardner Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Ascites and hydrothorax associated with ovarian fibroma or other pelvic tumors.

(Meigs Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Representative examples of benign lung soft tissue neoplasms include chondroma, leiomyoma, myolipoma, and fibroma.

(Lung Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

An odontogenic fibroma in which cells have developed into cementoblasts and which consists largely of cementum.

(Cementoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)