| 释义 |
deciduoma Path.|dɪsɪdjuːˈəʊmə|
[mod.L., f. decidua + -oma.]
An intra-uterine tumour probably caused by portions of the decidua remaining after abortion; deciduoma malignum, a malignant and cancerous deciduoma.
1890in Billings Med. Dict. 1902[see chorio-epithelioma]. 1907F. J. McCann Cancer of Womb xi. 119 The deciduoma malignum consists as a rule of a small primary growth. Ibid. 122 Deciduoma may occur at any age during the child-bearing period. 1932S. Zuckerman Soc. Life Monkeys v. 79 The development of large masses of hypertrophied endometrium—deciduomata. 1967R. A. Willis Path. Tumours (ed. 4) lxii. 1004 There is now universal recognition of its origin [sc. that of a chorion-epithelioma] from the chorionic epithelium, and of the erroneousness of the old name ‘deciduoma malignum’. |