| 单词 | phantom tumour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphantom tumour phantom tumour n. Medicine (originally) a mass in the abdomen resembling a tumour, usually attributed to abnormal contraction of the abdominal musculature; (later also) any of various other conditions simulating neoplasms, esp. a loculated pleural effusion resembling a lung tumour on X-ray. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > pseudotumour pseudotumour1848 phantom tumour1857 1857 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 4) II. lxvii. 415 The tumour which she had presented to the notice of the surgeon was what has been called a phantom tumour. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1137 A phantom tumour would disappear on administration of an anæsthetic. 1965 Dis. Chest 48 554/1 The most striking and characteristic feature of these ‘phantom tumor’ is that they disappear promptly with the proper treatment of digitalis and diuretics. 1999 Angiology 50 683 Loculation of a pleural effusion within an interlobar fissure as a result of congestive heart failure is a well-known entity. It has been termed ‘vanishing’ or ‘phantom’ tumor because its roentgenographic appearance simulates a pulmonary tumor and resolves with treatment of the congestive heart failure. < as lemmas |
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