Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tumor produced by the enlargement or new formation of blood-vessels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood or lymph vessels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
benign tumor made up of smallblood vessels orlymph vessels .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other tumours of the gums, such as angioma and papilloma, are rare.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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I had benign instances of venous angioma, heart murmur, and perhaps scoliosis, but none of those conditions caused me any trouble.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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At the end of the exam, the doctor told me I was a paradigm of good health and that a venous angioma was nothing to worry about.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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At the end of the exam, the doctor told me I was a paradigm of good health and that a venous angioma was nothing to worry about.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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All I wanted was a diagnosis for my headache, but I kept getting diagnosed with problems like a venous angioma and a heart murmur.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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All I wanted was a diagnosis for my headache, but I kept getting diagnosed with problems like a venous angioma and a heart murmur.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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I had benign instances of venous angioma, heart murmur, and perhaps scoliosis, but none of those conditions caused me any trouble.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Your medical records document a history of head injury as a child, ongoing treatment for headaches, a venous angioma, and depression diagnosed less than one year ago with ongoing treatment.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Your medical records document a history of head injury as a child, ongoing treatment for headaches, a venous angioma, and depression diagnosed less than one year ago with ongoing treatment.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Sometimes a lesion may appear atypical at first; then dermoscopy reveals it to be a simple angioma, a benign growth made up of blood vessels.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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