Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A benign tumor, most often found in the heart, composed of connective tissue embedded in mucus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tumor consisting of mucous tissue — that is, a tissue with round, fusiform, or stellate cells in a transparent, semifluid, intercellular substance containing a large amount of mucin. Also called
collonema .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tumor of primitiveconnective tissue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a benign tumor of connective tissue containing jellylike material
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let me clarify here, while it is true that MacFarlane Burnet injected himself with the rabbit myxoma virus, and I did actually infect myself with Helicobacter pylori,
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Seiffert examined a case of this nature in a young man of nineteen, and, contrary to Kopp's supposition, found that in some skin from over the left second rib the elastic fibers were quite normal, but there was transformation of the connective tissue of the dermis into an unformed tissue like a myxoma, with total disappearance of the connective-tissue bundles.
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Seiffert examined a case of this nature in a young man of nineteen, and, contrary to Kopp's supposition, found that in some skin from over the left second rib the elastic fibers were quite normal, but there was transformation of the connective tissue of the dermis into an unformed tissue like a myxoma, with total disappearance of the connective-tissue bundles.
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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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He confirmed Stout had a cardiac myxoma, and that the tumour, three centimetres in diameter, was growing in the upper left chamber of her heart.
Thestar.com - Home Page Megan Ogilvie 2011
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We hypothesized that adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) possess the ability to home and deliver myxoma virus to glioma cells and experimental gliomas.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Darnell T Josiah 2010
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We cocultured fluorescently labeled GBM cells with myxoma virus-infected ADSCs in three-dimensional assay and observed successful cross infection and concomitant cell death almost exclusively in GBM cells.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Darnell T Josiah 2010
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We infected ADSCs with vMyxgfp and found them to be permissive for myxoma virus replication.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Darnell T Josiah 2010
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The myxoma virus's natural host is the Brazilian rabbit, in which it is a persistant partner causing no more than minor skin blemishes.
Signs of the Times 2010
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In 1950, rabbits infected with myxoma virus were deliberately released into the wild.
Signs of the Times 2010
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