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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A benign tumor composed of bony tissue, often developing on the skull.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a tumor composed of bony tissue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.
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- noun medicine A
benign bony tumour that typically grows on theskull
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slow growing benign tumor of consisting of bone tissue; usually on the skull or mandible
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Examples
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We use RFA most commonly for benign bone growths such as an osteoid osteoma.
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Later, however, upon further examination, it was determined that the symptoms of osteoma had disappeared entirely.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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A number of year ago I had a malady that was diagnosed as osteoma of the jaw, that is, a bone tumor on my jaw.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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_Lymphoma, enchondroma and osteoma_, if not too extensively involving the laryngeal walls, may be excised with basket punch forceps, but lymphoma is probably better treated by radium.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The severity of the symptoms depends to a large extent on the rapidity of growth of the tumour; thus an osteoma growing slowly from the inner table of the skull and implicating the brain may reach a considerable size without producing cerebral symptoms, while a comparatively small sarcoma or syphilitic gumma of rapid growth may endanger life.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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_Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Less frequently fibroma, osteoma, and parasitic, hæmorrhagic, and other cysts are met with.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Note the osteoma within the right maxilla (arrowhead).
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Note the osteoma within the right maxilla (arrowhead).
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Sites of ivory osteoma are: a. Ivory osteoma. a. Outer tables of the skull (frontal region). b.
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