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glioblastoma en · NOUN

Etymology

From glio- + blastoma.

Meanings

1. A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain.
   • Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas—tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute. 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 71:
   • Hardy Fox[…] died on Oct. 30 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 73. His husband, Steven Kloman, said the cause was glioblastoma. 2018 November 4, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Hardy Fox, of the Avant-Garde Band the Residents (Maybe), Dies at 73”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Deriveds

glioblastoma multiforme · glioblastomagenesis · glioblastomal

Hypernyms

tumor · blastoma

Translations (11)

tr glioblastom (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · sv glioblastom (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · fr glioblastome (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · es glioblastoma (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · fi glioblastooma (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · it glioblastoma (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · ru глиобластóма (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · el γλοιοβλάστωμα (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · ca glioblastoma (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · de Glioblastom (fast-growing tumor of the brain) · hu glioblasztóma (fast-growing tumor of the brain)