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 small blood vessels or lymph 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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angio- + -oma

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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