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A neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant
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lymphoma
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lymphoma \Lym*pho"ma\, n. [NL. See Lymph , and -oma .] (Med.) A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma . Malignant lymphoma , a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural lymphomata , 1867, from lymph + -oma .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lymphoma is a group of blood cell tumors that develop from lymphatic cells . The name often refers to just the cancerous ones rather than all such tumors. Signs and symptoms may include enlarged lymph nodes , fever , drenching sweats , unintended weight ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer [also: lymphomata (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context oncology pathology English) a malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
Usage examples of lymphoma.
In January 2003, a woman named Sarah Pettit, the senior editor for the Newsweek Arts and Entertainment section, died of non-Hodgkin s lymphoma at the tragically young age of thirty- six.
Doc says it could be scar tissue, it could be the remains of a dying tumor, or it might be our old friend lymphoma cropping up again.
One afternoon I agreed to play a little golf with Bill Stapleton and another friend of ours named Dru Dunworth, who was a lymphoma survivor, at a club called Onion Creek.
Dana, only forty-four, had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but she appeared to be in remission.
For large-cell lymphoma, the cure rate today is around seventy percent.
I suffered from lymphoma some years back, and I was cured by a drug tailored to attack the cancerous cells.
It was lymphoma in both lungs and it had metastasized, meaning she had cancer all through her system, and they did not expect her to last more than a few days.
They were the House of God disasters, mostly young men and women with horrible diseases just past cure and just our side of death, diseases with rotting names like leukemia, melanoma, hepatoma, lymphoma, carcinoma, and all the other horrendomas for which there was no cure in this world or in any other.
This is especially true for cervical and liver cancers, as well as some lymphomas.
Growth-promoting effect of oestriol in a lymphoma lacking estrogen receptors.