Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cartilaginous growth or tumor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a tumor which consists essentially of cartilage. Also called
enchondroma .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cartilaginous tumor or growth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
benign tumour formed fromcartilage cells
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common benign tumor of cartilage cells
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Examples
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# -- Tumours, such as chondroma and sarcoma, and cysts which are probably of the same nature as those met with in osteomyelitis fibrosa, are liable to occur in callus, or at the seat of old fractures, but the evidence so far is inconclusive as to the causative relationship of the injury to the new-growth.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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There is reason to believe that the tumours of the parotid previously described as adenoma, chondroma, angioma, myxoma, and many of the cases of sarcoma, were really mixed tumours in which one or other of these tissues predominated.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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