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neuroma Path.|njʊˈrəʊmə|
Pl. -mata.
[ad. Gr. type *νεύρωµα, f. νεῦρον nerve.]
A swelling or tumour growing upon a nerve or in nerve-tissue.
1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 720 G/2 Certain gangli⁓form tumours are formed upon nerves, to which the term neuroma has been applied. 1873T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 128 True neuromata, however—i.e., new formations of nerve-tissue—are amongst the rarest forms of new formations. 1887Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Jan. 113/1 He had removed a neuroma from the wrist.
Hence neuˈromatous a., of the nature of, resembling, a neuroma.
1857in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1875H. Walton Dis. Eye 139 It is unlike a neuromatous tumour, which is a fibrous tumour imbedded in the sheath of a nerve. |