lymphoma

English

Etymology

From lymph, from Latin lympha (“water”) and -oma (“disease, morbidity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪmˈfoʊ.mə/

Noun

lymphoma (plural lymphomata or lymphomas)

1. (oncology, pathology) A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.
   • 1867, Reginald Southey, The Nature and Affinities of Tubercle: Being the Gulstonian Lectures for the Year 1867:

     In the one sub-class, we have the Leukaemic Lymphoma, the Typhous Lymphoma, the Hyperplastic Lymphoma (ex. the simple hypertrophied tonsil), Lympho-sarcoma, Scrofulous Glands; and in the other sub-class, Tubercle of man, and Perlsucht or Parresyge, or Morbus Gallicus, the pearl distemper of ruminating animals.

Derived terms

• adenolymphoma
• angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
• Burkitt's lymphoma
• diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
• Hodgkin's lymphoma
• lymphomagenesis
• lymphomagenic
• lymphomatogenesis
• lymphomatoid
• lymphomatosis
• lymphomatous
• MALT lymphoma
• pseudolymphoma

 

Translations

malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue

• Catalan: limfoma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淋巴瘤 (zh) (línbāliú)

• Czech: lymfom m
• Dutch: lymfoom (nl) n
• Finnish: imusolmukesyöpä (fi), lymfooma (fi)
• French: lymphome (fr) m
• Galician: linfoma (gl) m
• German: Lymphom n
• Greek: λέμφωμα (el) n (lémfoma)
• Hungarian: limfóma (hu)
• Icelandic: eitlaæxli n, eitilfrumukrabbamein n
• Irish: liomfóma m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: linfoma (it) m
• Japanese: リンパ腫 (rinpa-shu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lymfom n

  Nynorsk: lymfom n

• Polish: chłoniaki pl
• Portuguese: linfoma (pt) m
• Russian: лимфо́ма (ru) f (limfóma)
• Spanish: linfoma (es) m
• Swedish: lymfom (sv) n
• Thai: มะเร็งต่อมน้ำเหลือง (máreng dtòm náam lĕuang)
• Turkish: lenfoma

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Interlingua

Noun

lymphoma (plural lymphomas)

1. lymphoma