ANGIOMA (angiomata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: angiomata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does angioma mean? 

• ANGIOMA (noun)
  The noun ANGIOMA has 1 sense:

1. a tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels

  Familiarity information: ANGIOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGIOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("angioma" is a kind of...):

angiopathy (any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts)

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angioma"):

haemangioma; hemangioma (benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks)

lymphangioma (benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels)

spider angioma; spider nevus; vascular spider (a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate)

Derivation:

angiomatous (of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma)

 Context examples 

Does not include other neoplasms that originate from the parenchyma of the mammary fat pad (i.e., sarcomas, lymphomas, angiomas, etc.).

(Neoplasms of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A rare congenital but non-hereditary disorder characterized by angiomas or arteriovenous malformations of the spinal cord.

(Cobb Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms may include flushing of the face, flat angiomas (small collections of dilated blood vessels) of the skin, diarrhea, bronchial spasms, rapid pulse, and sudden drops in blood pressure.

(Carcinoid syndrome, NCI Dictionary)