Definition of Blastoma

1. Noun. A tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells.

Exact synonyms: Blastocytoma, Embryonal Carcinosarcoma
Generic synonyms: Neoplasm, Tumor, Tumour

Definition of Blastoma

1. Noun. (pathology) A tumour that is caused by malignancies in precursor cells or blasts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blastoma

1. a type of tumor [n -MAS or -MATA] - See also: tumor

Medical Definition of Blastoma

1. A neoplasm composed chiefly or entirely of immature undifferentiated cells (i.e., blast forms), with little or virtually no stroma. Synonym: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma. Origin: blasto-+ G. -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blastoma

blastodermic vesicle
blastoderms
blastodisc
blastodiscs
blastodisk
blastoff
blastoffs
blastogenesis
blastogenetic
blastogenic
blastoid
blastoidea
blastoids
blastolysis
blastolytic
blastoma (current term)
blastomas
blastomata
blastomere
blastomeres
blastomeric
blastomerotomy
blastomogenic
blastomyces
blastomycete
blastomycetic dermatitis
blastomycin
blastomycoses
blastomycosis
blastomycotic

Literary usage of Blastoma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"blastoma: the cancer of foetal residua. (From /fca<rr»<:, germ.) Then of species, we have acute and chronic varieties of carcinoma, the latter being almost ..."

2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Beginning earh-, the blastoma may completely suppress the embryo, or if late the embryo may reach the limit of its growth before the blastoma assumes ..."

3. Diseases of Man: Data of Their Nomenclature, Classification & Genesis by John William Severin Gouley (1888)
"blastoma * should be substituted for granuloma which is a hybrid word meaning, ... blastoma seems to express the meaning intended to be conveyed by ..."

4. A Treatise, practical and theoretic on cancers and the cancer-process by Herbert L. Snow (1893)
"blastoma). The testes are liable to carcinoma derived from their secreting epithelium ; and to true sarcoma, arising either in the tunica ..."

5. Birmingham Medical Review (1893)
"The malignant blastoma appears as the natural outcome of some inherent force, or law of development; owning no ascertainable existing cause. ..."

6. Differential diagnosis presented through an analysis of 385 [and] 317 cases by Richard Clarke Cabot (1918)
"All these doubts are settled by the blood examination which is characteristic of lymphoid leukemia, that is, of the type of lympho- blastoma associated with ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"blastoma: the cancer of foetal residua. (From /fca<rr»<:, germ.) Then of species, we have acute and chronic varieties of carcinoma, the latter being almost ..."

8. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Beginning earh-, the blastoma may completely suppress the embryo, or if late the embryo may reach the limit of its growth before the blastoma assumes ..."

9. Diseases of Man: Data of Their Nomenclature, Classification & Genesis by John William Severin Gouley (1888)
"blastoma * should be substituted for granuloma which is a hybrid word meaning, ... blastoma seems to express the meaning intended to be conveyed by ..."

10. A Treatise, practical and theoretic on cancers and the cancer-process by Herbert L. Snow (1893)
"blastoma). The testes are liable to carcinoma derived from their secreting epithelium ; and to true sarcoma, arising either in the tunica ..."

11. Birmingham Medical Review (1893)
"The malignant blastoma appears as the natural outcome of some inherent force, or law of development; owning no ascertainable existing cause. ..."

12. Differential diagnosis presented through an analysis of 385 [and] 317 cases by Richard Clarke Cabot (1918)
"All these doubts are settled by the blood examination which is characteristic of lymphoid leukemia, that is, of the type of lympho- blastoma associated with ..."

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