spongioblastoman.
/ˌspʌndʒɪəʊblaˈstəʊmə/ Pathology.
A malignant tumour, usually of the brain or optic nerve, believed to be derived from spongioblasts.
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1918 Neurol. Bull. 1 276/2 He [sc. Kaufmann] suggests the name columnar cell glioma and provisionally the term spongioblastoma.
1925 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 14 145 They are both—neuroblastomas and spongioblastomas—richly cellular, very proliferative and rapidly growing.
1967 Nursing Times 27 Jan. 108/2 The highly malignant spongioblastoma multiforme which can kill within a month or two of its first symptom.
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