glioblastoma
English
Noun
glioblastoma (plural glioblastomas or glioblastomata)
- A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 71:
- Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas—tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute.
- 2018 November 4, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Hardy Fox, of the Avant-Garde Band the Residents (Maybe), Dies at 73”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Hardy Fox […] died on Oct. 30 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 73. His husband, Steven Kloman, said the cause was glioblastoma.
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Translations
fast-growing tumor of the brain
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Further reading
- glioblastoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology
From glioblasto + -oma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡljoblasˈtoma/ [ɡljo.β̞lasˈt̪o.ma]
- Rhymes: -oma
- Syllabification: glio‧blas‧to‧ma
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