Medical Definition of Odontoma
1. A mixed tumour of odontogenic origin, in which both the epithelial and mesenchymal cells exhibit complete differentiation, resulting in the formation of tooth structures. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odontoma
Literary usage of Odontoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Pathology by Guthrie McConnell (1920)
"An odontoma, according to Bland-Sutton, from whose work the following is taken,
is a tumor composed of dental tissues in varying proportions and different ..."
2. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"Section of an odontoma. Magnified 100 diameter*. (very irregularly shaped) occur
in ovarian cysts and in the antrum ..."
3. General Pathology and Principles of Medicine for Students and Practitioners by Vernon Cecil Rowland (1921)
"odontoma.—odontoma is a tumor of tooth tissue, arising from the germs of teeth
or from developing teeth (Fig. 65). A tooth has a rather complex ..."
4. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"odontoma.—The typical odontoma is composed of a congeries of more or less perfectly
formed teeth usually surrounded by an epithelial membrane and fibrous ..."
5. A Manual of Pathology by Joseph Coats (1903)
"Osteoma, chiefly as exostosis, odontoma; 6. Myoma, the rhabdomyoma rare, the
leiomyoma common, structure and relations of latter, Wood's painful ..."
6. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"... may likewise occur at the maxillary bones. They fuse with the surrounding bone
without forming any sharp border, or they may be encapsulated. odontoma. ..."
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