Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A benign tumor composed of an abnormal mixture of normal tissue elements that develop and grow at the same rate as adjacent tissue, resulting from faulty development in an organ.
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- noun pathology A
benign mass of disorganizedtissue .
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- noun a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This has led to an habitual misconception of what sin is, and what it means. word translated sin in the New Testament is ἁμαρτία medical term hamartoma meaning a tumor formed from malformed rather than truly
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Kitano Y, Ruchelli E, Weiner S, Adzick NS: Hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma associated with mesenchymal stem villous hyperplasia of the placenta.
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Baby Nico Bastolla was born with hypothalamic hamartoma, a benign tumor that was tickling part of his brain.
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(END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: There are about 200 to 300 children in the country that actually have this hypothalamic hamartoma.
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The remaining primary liver tumors diagnosed in fetuses and juvenile horses were mixed hamartoma, mesenchymal hamartoma, and HCC.
TheHorse.com News 2010
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Neuromuscular and vascular hamartoma (NMVH) is a very rare stricturing condition of the small intestine, occurring focally and causing recurrent obstructive symptoms or occult chronic gastrointestinal bleeding.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ekaterini Theodosiou 2009
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Angiomyolipoma of the kidney was previously considered to be a hamartoma or choristoma, but is now known to be neoplastic.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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Unlike most such growths, a hypothalamic hamartoma is symptomatic; it most often causes gelastic seizures, and can cause visual problems, other seizures, rage disorders associated with hypothalamic diseases, and early onset of puberty.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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Because hamartoma typically lacks elastic tissue, it may lead to the formation of aneurysms and thus possible hemorrhage.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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When located on the skin, especially the face or neck, they can be extremely disfiguring, as in the case of a man with a hamartoma the size of a small orange on his eyelid.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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