Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tumor composed of bloodvessels; an augioma.
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- noun pathology A
congenital , benigntumor ofendothelial cells.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks
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Examples
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We used the term hemangioma only because of the visual appearance of the malformation in our patient,1 but reading the accurate explanation from Yan and colleagues, and in particular the classification by Mulliken et al,2-3 we have become aware of our inaccuracy.
Archives of Pediatrics current issue Scaramuzza, A. E., Tadini, G. L., Mameli, C., De P 2010
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It wasn't until I was sitting in a treatment room discussing my dreadful cancer diagnosis at age 42 that it was referred to as hemangioma, which doesn't sound like something you want any more than a stain.
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But the direst drama of her infancy was due to a blood-vessel tumor, known as a hemangioma, which exploded one terrible day.
NYDN Rss LORE CROGHAN 2011
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A hemangioma is a benign tumor of cells that line blood vessels, appearing during the first few week ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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A hemangioma is a benign tumor of cells that line blood vessels, appearing during the first few week ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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A hemangioma is a benign tumor of cells that line blood vessels, appearing during the first few week ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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A hemangioma is a benign tumor of cells that line blood vessels, appearing during the first few week ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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A hemangioma is a benign tumor of cells that line blood vessels, appearing during the first few week ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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On rare occasions, a person’s gallbladder will be seated high up in the liver, or she may have a small, benign tumor of the liver called a hemangioma.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001
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Early literature on vascular birthmarks is complicated by indiscriminate application of terms such as hemangioma to denote heterogeneous vascular anomalies, including those now more specifically identified as capillary malformations (port-wine stains), cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita, kaposiform hemangioendothelioma, and pyogenic granuloma, to name just a few.
mollusque commented on the word hemangioma
Strawberry mark.
June 7, 2009