HAMARTOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hamartoma mean? 

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

1. a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMARTOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))

 Context examples 

It is the major CNS manifestation of Cowden disease, an autosomal dominant condition that causes a variety of hamartomas and neoplasms.

(Dysplastic Cerebellar Gangliocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Cowden disease and multiple hamartoma syndrome.

(Cowden syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

An inherited disorder marked by the formation of many noncancerous growths called hamartomas.

(Cowden disease, NCI Dictionary)

Translocation of this gene is associated with lipomas, pulmonary chondroid hamartomas and uterine leiomyomata.

(HMGA2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Pilocytic astrocytomas and hamartomas are relatively frequent histologic types.

(Hypothalamic Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Patients with multiple hamartoma syndrome are at increased risk of certain types of cancer, including breast and thyroid.

(Multiple hamartoma syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

The loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 19p (where the responsible gene LKB1 is located) suggests that the increased risk of malignancy may be due to malignant transformation from hamartoma to adenocarcinoma. —2002

(Peutz-Jeghers Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

A hamartoma characterized by localized pilosebaceous apparatus malformation.

(Pilosebaceous Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A breast hamartoma characterized by the predominance of a smooth muscle component.

(Breast Myoid Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign neoplasm or hamartoma composed of melanocytes.

(Benign Melanocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)