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LIPOMA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: lipomata   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A tumor consisting of fatty tissue

Synonyms:

adipose tumor; lipoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lipoma" is a kind of...):

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

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 Context examples: 

Representative examples include chest wall lipoma and chest wall lymphoma.

(Chest Wall Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include hemangioma, tongue lipoma, and buccal mucosa papilloma.

(Benign Oral Cavity Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include pleural adenomatoid tumor, chest wall lipoma, mediastinal neurofibroma, and lung hamartoma.

(Benign Thoracic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Benign Connective and Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include leiomyoma, lipoma, and neurofibroma.

(Benign Non-Epithelial Gallbladder Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include axillary lymphadenitis, axillary lipoma, and metastatic carcinoma to the axillary lymph nodes.

(Axillary Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipoma characterized by prominent vascularization.

(Angiolipoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Representative examples include leiomyoma and lipoma.

(Benign Extrahepatic Bile Duct Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include axillary lipoma, axillary lymph node lymphoma, and metastatic carcinoma to the axillary lymph nodes.

(Axillary Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include lung adenoma, lung hamartoma, and endobronchial lipoma.

(Benign Lung Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)