glioblastoman.
/ɡlʌɪəʊblaˈstəʊmə/ Pathology.
= spongioblastoma n. glioblastoma multiˈforme, a fast-growing malignant glioma of the cerebrum in which there are cells of many kinds, most of them resembling spongioblasts.
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testudoc1400
Talpa1684
glioma1870
psammoma1872
myxoglioma1878
gliomatosis1886
gliosis1892
cephalhaematoma1900
meningioma1922
medulloblastoma1925
glioblastoma multiforme1926
space-occupying lesion1937
neuroglioblastoma1985
1926 P. Bailey & H. Cushing Classification Tumors of Glioma Group v. 95 One might..designate the..[bipolar and unipolar spongioblasts] as bipolar and unipolar glioblasts... One would then employ glioblastoma multiforme and unipolare in the place of spongioblastoma multiforme and unipolare.
1953 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Feb. 59 Twenty months after the patient's first admission to hospital a cystic glioblastoma multiforme was demonstrated at operation.
1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xxviii. 4/2 The more rapidly growing and pleomorphic of these tumours [sc. gliomata] are often called glioblastomata.
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