Dictionary

lymphoma en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /lɪmˈfoʊ.mə/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From lymph, from Latin lympha (“water”) + -oma (“disease, morbidity”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.
   • Common immunohistochemical markers of this lymphoma include CD2, CD56, CD3, and T-cell receptors. 7 Typically, the histology of these lymphomas are characterized by monomorphic inflammatory cellular infiltrates, which may be diffuse or show angiocentricity and angiodestruction as well as tissue destruction. 7 Lymphoid markers from the nasal mucosal biopsy from this patient were negative for CD56 and EBER. 2015, Brook McConnell, M. Sherif Said, Vijay R. Ramakrishnan, “Nasal septal perforation associated with pyoderma gangrenosum”, in Allergy & Rhinology, volume 6, →DOI:
   • In the one sub-class, we have the Leukaemic Lymphoma, the Typhous Lymphoma, the Hyperplastic Lymphoma (ex. the simple hypertrophied tonsil), Lympho-sarcoma, Scrofulous Glands; and in the other sub-class, Tubercle of man, and Perlsucht or Parresyge, or Morbus Gallicus, the pearl distemper of ruminating animals. 1867, Reginald Southey, The Nature and Affinities of Tubercle: Being the Gulstonian Lectures for the Year 1867:

Forms

Deriveds

Hodgkin lymphoma · Mediterranean lymphoma · Hodgkin's lymphoma · non-Hodgkin's lymphoma · Burkitt's lymphoma · antilymphoma · lymphomagenesis · pseudolymphoma · diffuse large B-cell lymphoma · Burkitt lymphoma · adenolymphoma · non-Hodgkin lymphoma · lymphomatous · lymphomatosis · lymphomagenic · neurolymphoma · lymphomatogenesis · lymphomatoid · angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma · MALT lymphoma

Hypernyms

carcinoma · adenocarcinoma · cancer

Translations (32)

la lymphoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ja リンパ腫 (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ga liomfóma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · kk лимфома (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · is eitlaæxli (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · fi lymfooma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ru лимфо́ма (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · sv lymfom (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · de Lymphom (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · fr lymphome (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · cs lymfom (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ba лимфома (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ta நிணநீர்க்குழியப் புற்றுநோய் (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · is eitilfrumukrabbamein (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · nb lymfom (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ky лимфома (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · tr lenfoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · nn lymfom (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · th มะเร็งต่อมน้ำเหลือง (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · pt linfoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · fa لنفوم (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · nl lymfoom (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · cmn 淋巴瘤 (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · hu limfóma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · pl chłoniaki (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · fi imusolmukesyöpä (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · it linfoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · es linfoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · nl lymfeklierkanker (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · el λέμφωμα (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · ca limfoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue) · gl linfoma (malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue)