gliomatosisn.
/ˌɡlʌɪəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/ Pathology.
A diffuse proliferation of glia cells associated with or arising from a glioma; gliosis.
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testudoc1400
Talpa1684
glioma1870
psammoma1872
myxoglioma1878
gliomatosis1886
gliosis1892
cephalhaematoma1900
meningioma1922
medulloblastoma1925
glioblastoma multiforme1926
space-occupying lesion1937
neuroglioblastoma1985
1886 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. I. iii. 436 The neuroglia may be regarded as a persistent, slightly modified, embryonal tissue, and these exuberant masses of tissue bear considerable resemblance in structure to glioma, so that the condition has been called ‘gliomatosis’.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 48 From syringomyelia and central gliomatosis it may be impossible to distinguish the later results of hæmatomyelia.
1910 W. Osler & T. McCrae Syst. Med. VII. 422 Certain forms of diffuse gliomatosis, often mistaken..for hypertrophies of the brain.
1924 R. Muir Text-bk. Pathol. xvii. 624 Intermediate varieties are met with, between a distinct tumour and a more diffuse overgrowth which may be called gliomatosis... Gliomatosis occurs also in relation to the central canal of the spinal cord in connection with syringomyelia.
1947 W. R. Brain Dis. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 3) iii. 225 Sometimes a glioma seems to arise diffusely, as in so-called ‘gliomatosis cerebri’, or from multible centres at the same time.
1959 D. S. Russell & L. J. Rubinstein Pathol. Tumours Nerv. Syst. ii. 33 Diffuse gliomatosis of the pia-arachnoid of the spinal cord was recorded by Harbitz (1932, case 1), the glioma apparently being of astrocytic character.
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