rhabdomyoma

English

Etymology

After German Rhabdomyoma;[1] equivalent to rhabdo- +‎ myoma.

Noun

rhabdomyoma (countable and uncountable, plural rhabdomyomas or rhabdomyomata)

  1. (pathology) A non-cancerous tumor of skeletal muscle.
    • 1977, J. Kent Trinkle, “Cardiac Neoplasms”, in James D. Hardy, editor, Rhoads Textbook of Surgery: Principles and Practice, 5th edition, volume 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →ISBN, part 12 (The Heart, Arteries, Veins and Lymphatics), chapter 54 (The Heart), page 1660, column 1:
      Rhabdomyoma is the most common of primary cardiac neoplasms found in infants and children. It is rare in adults. Fifty per cent of patients with rhabdomyoma also have tuberous sclerosis—a familial disease consisting of epilepsy, mental retardation, and adenoma sebaceum.

References

  1. ^ “rhabdomyoma, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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