Crossword-Solution: GLIOMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Glioma | n. | A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| ASTROCYTOMA | 1 answer |
| tumour of the brain and spinal cord | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GLIOMA (5)
Within the substance of the cord glioma or the mixed gliosarcomata are found to be the most frequent, tumors may form from the meninges and the vertebræ, being of a fibrous or bony nature, and affect the spinal cord indirectly by compression.
Various forms of growth occur in the brain, the most common being tuberculous nodules, syphilitic gumma, endothelioma, glioma, and sarcoma.
Tumours growing _in the substance of the cord_ are nearly as common as extra-medullary growths, and as the growth is usually sarcoma, glioma, tuberculoma, or gumma, and infiltrates the cord, it is seldom capable of being removed by operation.
And what is most remarkable is, that, as Eulenburg correctly remarks, among the pseudo-neuromata the kind of tumor which is most frequently associated with neuralgia is by no means the dense fibroma or glioma, which might be expected by its mechanical pressure to excite inevitable neuralgic pain, but the far softer and more yielding cystic tumors.
Each member mainly composed of a more or less typical growth of a connective tissue: Myxoma, Lipoma, Glioma, Chondroma, Fibroma (including papilloma and melanoma), Osteoma.