desmoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“chain, bundle”) +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

desmoid (comparative more desmoid, superlative most desmoid)

  1. Pertaining to a bundle.
  2. (pathology) Fibrous; having closely interwoven fibres in bundles.
  3. (medicine) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament or fibre; ligamentous, fibrous.

Noun[edit]

desmoid (plural desmoids)

  1. A fibrous tumour.

Anagrams[edit]

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