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meningioma

[ muh-nin-jee-oh-muh ]

noun

Pathology.
plural meningiomas, meningiomata
  1. a hard, encapsulated tumor that grows slowly along the meninges.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of meningioma1

1920–25; shortening of meningothelioma, equivalent to mening(es) + -o- + (endo)thelioma
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Doctors often prescribe radiation along with surgery to treat a brain tumor called meningioma that originates in the protective membranes surrounding the brain.

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His wife Anita, 45, was told she had a meningioma just over a year later.

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I watched mine perform a complicated skull-based surgery — the removal of a sphenoid meningioma.

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As a sophomore at Heritage High School in Brentwood, California, he suffered partial paralysis when a meningioma tumor the size of a lemon was discovered in his spinal cord.

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The most common would be a meningioma, a tumor of the tissue that lines the brain.

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