adenoma

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) 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
• 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

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.deˈnɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Syllabification: 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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.deˈnõ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.deˈnõ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.deˈno.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.dɨˈno.mɐ/ [ɐ.ðɨˈno.mɐ]

• Hyphenation: a‧de‧no‧ma

Noun

adenoma m (plural adenomas)

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

Further reading

• “adenoma” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “adenoma” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “adenoma” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “adenoma” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “adenoma” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “adenoma” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Noun

adenoma m (plural adenomas)

1. adenoma

Further reading

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