glioblastoma

English

Etymology

glio- +‎ blastoma

Noun

glioblastoma (plural glioblastomas or glioblastomata)

1. 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.

Related terms

• glioblastomal

Hypernyms

• blastoma
• tumor

Translations

fast-growing tumor of the brain

• Catalan: glioblastoma m
• Finnish: glioblastooma
• French: glioblastome (fr) f
• German: Glioblastom (de) n
• Greek: γλοιοβλάστωμα (el) n (gloiovlástoma)
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• Italian: glioblastoma (it) m
• Russian: глиобластóма f (glioblastóma)
• Spanish: glioblastoma m
• Swedish: glioblastom c
• Turkish: glioblastom

References

• glioblastoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oma
• Hyphenation: gli‧o‧blas‧to‧ma

Noun

glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomes)

1. (oncology) glioblastoma

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Italian

Noun

glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomi)

1. (oncology) glioblastoma

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Spanish

Etymology

From glioblasto +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡljoblasˈtoma/ [ɡljo.β̞lasˈt̪o.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Hyphenation: glio‧blas‧to‧ma

Noun

glioblastoma m (plural glioblastomas)

1. glioblastoma