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English
Etymology
From lymph, from Latin lympha (“water”) + -oma (“disease, morbidity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lymphoma (countable and uncountable, plural lymphomata or lymphomas)
- (oncology, pathology) A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.
1867, Reginald Southey, The Nature and Affinities of Tubercle: Being the Gulstonian Lectures for the Year 1867:In the one sub-class, we have the Leukaemic Lymphoma, the Typhous Lymphoma, the Hyperplastic Lymphoma (ex. the simple hypertrophied tonsil), Lympho-sarcoma, Scrofulous Glands; and in the other sub-class, Tubercle of man, and Perlsucht or Parresyge, or Morbus Gallicus, the pearl distemper of ruminating animals.
2015, Brook McConnell, M. Sherif Said, Vijay R. Ramakrishnan, “Nasal septal perforation associated with pyoderma gangrenosum”, in Allergy & Rhinology, volume 6, →DOI:Common immunohistochemical markers of this lymphoma include CD2, CD56, CD3, and T-cell receptors. 7 Typically, the histology of these lymphomas are characterized by monomorphic inflammatory cellular infiltrates, which may be diffuse or show angiocentricity and angiodestruction as well as tissue destruction. 7 Lymphoid markers from the nasal mucosal biopsy from this patient were negative for CD56 and EBER.
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Translations
malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
Interlingua
Noun
lymphoma (plural lymphomas)
- lymphoma