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Definition of Sand tumor
1. Noun. A tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain; characterized by sandlike particles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Tumor
Literary usage of Sand tumor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of pathology by Joseph Coats (1883)
"THE BRAIN sand tumor OR PSAMMOMA. The pineal gland contains calcareous particles
like grains of sand, and tumors are met with in which similar particles are ..."
2. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1920)
"Hot sand for the immersion of a vesat Sand-flea. The chigoe or jigger. Sand-tumor.
See Psammoma. Sander's Sign. Undulatory character of the cardiac impulse. ..."
3. Gould and Pyle's Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine and Surgery: With ...by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Richard John Ernst Scott by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Richard John Ernst Scott (1912)
"Psammoma (brain-sand tumor). Class IV.—Tumors composed of epithelial cells arranged
in the spaces of a stroma of more or h->s perfectly developed and ..."
4. Lectures on tumors from a clinical standpoint by John Brown Hamilton (1892)
"Psammoma: Synonym, brain-sand tumor. 7. Melanoma: Synonym, pigment-tumor of meninges.
8. Myoma: Synonym, muscle-tissue tumor. 9. 10. ..."
5. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Psammoma, or sand tumor, applies to this growth when the units are calcified.
Osteo-endothelioma forms rarely in the same manner (Perthes). 5. Diffuse. ..."
6. A Manual of pathology by Joseph Coats (1883)
"THE BRAIN sand tumor OR PSAMMOMA. The pineal gland contains calcareous particles
like grains of sand, and tumors are met with in which similar particles are ..."
7. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1920)
"Hot sand for the immersion of a vesat Sand-flea. The chigoe or jigger. Sand-tumor.
See Psammoma. Sander's Sign. Undulatory character of the cardiac impulse. ..."
8. Gould and Pyle's Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine and Surgery: With ...by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Richard John Ernst Scott by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Richard John Ernst Scott (1912)
"Psammoma (brain-sand tumor). Class IV.—Tumors composed of epithelial cells arranged
in the spaces of a stroma of more or h->s perfectly developed and ..."
9. Lectures on tumors from a clinical standpoint by John Brown Hamilton (1892)
"Psammoma: Synonym, brain-sand tumor. 7. Melanoma: Synonym, pigment-tumor of meninges.
8. Myoma: Synonym, muscle-tissue tumor. 9. 10. ..."
10. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Psammoma, or sand tumor, applies to this growth when the units are calcified.
Osteo-endothelioma forms rarely in the same manner (Perthes). 5. Diffuse. ..."
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