adenoma

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”) +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăd ĕnō' mĕ, IPA^(key): /ædəˈnoʊmə/
• Rhymes: -əʊmə

Noun

adenoma (plural adenomas or adenomata)

1. (pathology) A benign tumour of the epithelium arising from or resembling a gland.

Hyponyms

• lymphadenoma

Derived terms

• adenomatoid
• adenomatosis
• adenomatous
• porcine intestinal adenomatosis (PIA)
• pulmonary adenomatosis

Translations

benign tumour

• Catalan: adenoma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腺瘤 (zh) (xiànliú)

• Czech: adenom m
• Dutch: adenoom (nl) n
• Esperanto: adenomo
• Finnish: adenooma (fi)
• French: adénome (fr) m
• German: Adenom (de) n, gutartige Drüsengeschwulst f, Drüsengeschwulst f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: αδένωμα (el) n (adénoma)
• Inuktitut: ᑕᖏᓕᒃ ᐱᕈᖅᑐᖅ (tangilik piroqtoq)
• Irish: adanóma m
• Italian: adenoma (it) m
• Polish: gruczolak (pl) m
• Portuguese: adenoma m
• Russian: адено́ма (ru) f (adenóma)
• Spanish: adenoma (es) m
• Swedish: adenom (sv) n
• Turkish: adenom, adenoma (tr)

Further reading

• adenoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.deˈnɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Hyphenation: a‧de‧nò‧ma

Noun

adenoma m (plural adenomi)

1. (pathology) adenoma

Further reading

• adenoma in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• adenoma in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• adenoma in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• adenoma in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• adenoma in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• adenoma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French adénome, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn). Synchronically, adeno- +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɐdəˈnomɐ/
• Hyphenation: a‧de‧no‧ma

Noun

adenoma m (plural adenomas)

1. (pathology) adenoma (benign tumour of the epithelium)

Further reading

• “adenoma”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “adenoma”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “adenoma” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “adenoma”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “adenoma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “adenoma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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Spanish

Noun

adenoma f (plural adenomas)

1. adenoma

Further reading

• “adenoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014