Definition of hepatoma in English:
hepatoma
nounPlural hepatomata, Plural hepatomasˌhɛpəˈtəʊməˌhepəˈtōmə
Medicine A cancer of the cells of the liver.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such nonspecific inclusions have been described in the elderly with highly active disease, in alcoholic cirrhosis hepatitis and hepatoma.
- It may be possible to immunize against such infections; for example, researchers in Taiwan have shown that immunization against hepatitis reduced the incidence of childhood hepatoma by 50%.
- I can recall one patient who clinically seemed to have gall stones but who eventually proved to have a primary hepatoma, and another patient who had persistent heartburn while taking low dose aspirin who had carcinoma of the stomach.
- However, most patients with large or multiple hepatomas or most other types of cancer are not considered for transplantation as tumours recur rapidly.
- This region appears to recognize and differentiate between a normal cell and a hepatoma cell.