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Definition of Brain tumour

1. Noun. A tumor in the brain.

Medical Definition of Brain tumour

1. May be subdivided into primary brain tumours and the more common, secondary brain tumours. Primary brain tumours (for example astrocytoma, craniopharyngioma, glioma, ependymoma, neuroglioma, oligodendroglioma, glioblastoma multiforme, meningioma, medulloblastoma) arise from the uncontrolled proliferation of cells within the brain. Secondary brain tumours occur from the spread of cancer into the brain from a distant cancerous organ (metastasis). Common symptoms of a brain tumour include headache, nausea, vomiting, seizures, change in mentation, neurologic symptoms and loss of memory. (17 Dec 1997)

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Literary usage of Brain tumour

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

1. Clinical surgical diagnosis for students and practitioners by Fritz de Quervain (1913)
"... CYST OF BRAIN, TUMOUR OF BRAIN. As one of the primary rules for the diagnosis of cerebral abscess or tumour, the proposition must be stated that ..."

2. 3-D Deterministic Radiation Transport Computer Programs: Features by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (1997)
"The ratio of the average radiation dose in a the brain tumour to that in the healthy brain tissue surrounding the tumour may be written: where ! ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1879)
"In one case of extraordinary brain tumour, a slow- growing sarcoma, he, found, on taking off the skull-cap, that the surface of the dura mater was covered ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"TWO CASES OF brain tumour IN WHICH RECOVERY TOOK PLACE. By TK MONRO, MA, MD, Assistant Physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary ..."

5. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes by Charles Alfred Ballance (1908)
"In a monograph on the subject published last year the results of 400 operations for brain tumour are discussed. In a large proportion notable improvement or ..."

6. Medical Diagnosis: Special Diagnosis of Internal Medicine by Julius Lincoln Salinger, Wilhelm Olivier von Leube (1904)
"Multiple sclerosis, also, at certain stages of the course of a brain tumour, may be confused with the latter, especially when, in the latter condition, ..."

7. The Clinical Journal (1895)
"Oculo-motor paralysis in cases of brain tumour, by which I mean paralysis of some of the extra- ocular muscles—the recti or the oblique muscles, ..."

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