angioma

English

Etymology

From angi- +‎ -oma.

Noun

angioma (plural angiomas or angiomata)

1. (medicine) A benign tumor made up of small blood vessels or lymph vessels.

Derived terms

• angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
• cherry angioma
• chorioangioma
• chylangioma
• fibroangioma
• haemangioma, hemangioma
• keratoangioma
• lymphangioma
• senile angioma

Translations

benign tumor

• Catalan: angioma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血管瘤 (zh) (xuèguǎnliú)

• Finnish: verisuonikasvain
• French: angiome (fr) m
• German: Angiom (de) n, Blutschwamm m
• Greek: αγγείωμα (el) n (angeíoma)
• Irish: angóma m
• Italian: angioma (it) m
• Japanese: 血管腫 (けっかんしゅ, kekkanshu)
• Kazakh: тамыр ісігі (tamır isigi)
• Korean: 혈관종 (hyeolgwanjong)
• Persian: آنژیوم (fa), رگ‌تود (fa)
• Portuguese: angioma m
• Russian: ангиома (ru) f (angioma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ангиом m

  Latin: angiom (sh) m

• Spanish: angioma m
• Uzbek: angioma (uz)

Anagrams

• Magonia, nagaimo

Italian

Noun

angioma m (plural angiomi)

1. angioma

Derived terms

• emangioma, emoangioma
• linfangioma, linfoangioma

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.ʒiˈõ.mɐ/, (faster) /ɐ̃ˈʒjõ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈʒjo.mɐ/

• Hyphenation: an‧gi‧o‧ma

Noun

angioma m (plural angiomas)

1. (pathology) angioma (benign tumour consisting of small blood vessels)

Further reading

• “angioma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “angioma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἄγγος (ángos)

Proto-Indo-European *-yóm

Proto-Hellenic

Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)

Ancient Greek -εῖον (-eîon)

Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon)der.

Spanish angio-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?

Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)bor.

Spanish -oma

Spanish angioma

From angio- + -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈxjoma/ [ãŋˈxjo.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: an‧gio‧ma

Noun

angioma m (plural angiomas)

1. (pathology) angioma

Derived terms

• hemangioma

Further reading

• “angioma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025