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Lymphoma

//lɪmˈfoʊ.mə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer wordnet

Etymology

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

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