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

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"For the first time, the IARC report also gathered cancer data on adolescents, between the ages of 15 and 19. The incidence there was 185 cancers in one million teens each year, with lymphoma and melanoma at the top of the list."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

Burkitt lymphomaBurkitt's lymphomaHodgkin lymphomaHodgkin's lymphomaMALT lymphomaMediterranean lymphomaangioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphomadiffuse large B-cell lymphomanon-Hodgkin lymphomanon-Hodgkin's lymphoma

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