MYOMA (myomata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: myomata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does myoma mean? 

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

1. a benign tumor composed of muscle tissue

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

benign tumor; benign tumour; nonmalignant neoplasm; nonmalignant tumor; nonmalignant tumour (a tumor that is not cancerous)

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

leiomyoma (benign tumor of smooth muscle (usually in the uterus or digestive tract))

rhabdomyoma (benign tumor of striated muscle)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes MIRLET7A3 RNA, plays a role in development of many cancers including lung, liver, stomach ovary, breast, colorectal, melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, cholangiocarcinoma, glioblastoma, lipoma, myoma, and hamartoma, sarcoma, adenoma and squamous carcinoma.

(MIRLET7A3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes MIRLET7A1 RNA, plays a role in development of many cancers including lung, liver, stomach, ovary, breast, colorectal, melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, cholangiocarcinoma, glioblastoma, lipoma, myoma, hamartoma, sarcoma, adenoma and squamous carcinoma.

(MIRLET7A1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)