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spongioblastoma

n. a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal [syn: glioblastoma]

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He extirpated the spongioblastoma in his own private hospital or at least the hospital Tissue Committee examined what he said he had removed from Don Lavin's skull, and this indisputably was spongioblastoma multiforma, consisting of round, elongated, and piriform cells, characteristically recalling the varied cytological picture in osteogenic sarcoma of bone.

He extirpated the spongioblastoma in his own private hospital- or at least the hospital Tissue Committee examined what he said he had removed from Don Lavin's skull, and this indisputably was spongioblastoma multiforma, consisting of round, elongated, and piriform cells, characteristically recalling the varied cytological picture in osteogenic sarcoma of bone.