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Definition of Glioma

1. Noun. A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia.

Definition of Glioma

1. n. A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

Definition of Glioma

1. Noun. (pathology) A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glioma

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

Medical Definition of Glioma

1. Neuroectodermal tumour of neuroglial origin: include astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma and ependymoma derived from astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and ependymal cells respectively. All infiltrate the adjacent brain tissue, but they do not metastasise. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Glioma

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

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"It may be possible, however, when the glioma is very minute, ... Unlike sarcoma, glioma seldom extends into the membranes of the brain or cord, ..."

2. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"glioma. Tension is usually increased in glioma, but may be minus; ... Sarcoma of the choroid is differentiated from glioma by the fact that the former ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"It may be possible, however, when the glioma is very minute, ... Unlike sarcoma, glioma seldom extends into the membranes of the brain or cord, ..."

4. A Handbook of ophthalmic science and practice by Henry Edward Juler (1884)
"Another mode of extension is by way of /he choroid; glioma exo- phytum usually spreads in this way. The part of the choroid h'rst invaded is that nearest to ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"TUMORS OF THE RETINA glioma.—glioma, or, as it is sometimes termed, gliosarcoma (Virchow), the latter authority believing that the tumor originated from the ..."

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