Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A neoplasm composed of immature and undifferentiated cells.
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- noun pathology A
tumour that is caused by malignancies in precursorcells or blasts.
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- noun a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells
Etymologies
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Examples
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Analysis of 1p36 deletions and MYCN amplification in neuro - blastoma biopsies
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Malignancies consist mainly of pulmonary blastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma in infants and young children, and bronchioloalveolar carcinoma in older children and adults.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
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Bridget was eventually diagnosed with pleuropulmonary blastoma, a form of cancer so rare it affects only 10 to 20 children in all of North America each year.
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Here is a little story for those doubting that with your brain booms you can still write as wonderfully as you do- My dad was dying of a glio blastoma multeaformea..that's a cancerous brain tumor for non medical people.
Am I a liar? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Battling a cancer called neuro-blastoma since 1999, Michael had been in and out of hospitals for years.
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I lost my 38-year-old brother in January from a very malignant brain tumor, glial blastoma.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? - August 9, 2000 2000
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And his niece, Sophia, lost her right eye to retinal blastoma in 2001.
NYDN Rss Roger Rubin 2011
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The 24 year old had lost a niece to neuro-blastoma and wanted to find a way to prevent other children from having to go through it.
WBIR.com - News 2010
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In summer 2009, a former student and colleague of Dehner's, Ashley Hill, MD, now chief of pathology at the Children's National Medical Center, brought his work full circle by identifying the first gene linked to pleuropulmonary blastoma.
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In 1977, Dehner was the first to identify and characterize a type of tumor known as pleuropulmonary blastoma.
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