Definition of Epithelioma

1. Noun. A malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue.

Generic synonyms: Skin Cancer

Definition of Epithelioma

1. n. A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.

Definition of Epithelioma

1. Noun. (medicine) Any tumor that originates in the epithelium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Epithelioma

1. [n -MATA or -MAS]

Medical Definition of Epithelioma

1. A neoplasm of epithelial origin, ranging from benign (adenoma and papilloma) to malignant (carcinoma). (14 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithelioma

epithelialization
epithelialize
epithelialized
epithelializes
epithelializing
epitheliochorial placenta
epitheliocyte
epitheliod
epitheliofibril
epithelioglandular
epithelioid
epithelioid cell
epithelioid cell nevus
epithelioid cells
epitheliolytic
epithelioma (current term)
epithelioma adenoides cysticum
epithelioma contagiosum
epithelioma cuniculatum
epitheliomas
epitheliomata
epitheliomatous
epitheliopathy
epitheliosis
epitheliotropic
epithelite
epithelium
epithelium anterius corneae
epithelium ductus semicircularis
epithelium lentis

Literary usage of Epithelioma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck (1884)
"In these cases it would appear as if there was a tendency to epithelioma in a ... Thus, I have seen after the removal of an epithelioma of the lip on one ..."

2. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"epithelioma AND SEBACEOUS CYST OF THE SCALP SIDE BY SIDE THIS woman, about sixty-five years of age, sent up from the dispensary, shows the rather ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"METHODS of treatment of epithelioma in the past have been as numerous and the ... epithelioma is cancer of the skin or mucous mem- 1 Read before the ..."

4. Organizations by James G. March, Herbert Alexander Simon (1878)
"epithelioma is •st frequent in the male sex, and rarely occurs before middle life ... Thus epithelioma of the lower lip is often at- butable to the habit of ..."

5. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"459 (with colored plate case illustration and 7 photomicrographs); JC White, "Multiple Benign Cystic epithelioma," ibid., 1894, p. ..."

6. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1902)
"epithelioma of the Tonsil. Dr. Thomas J. Harris presented a man who had been under his care at the hospital for about one month. ..."

7. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1907)
"epithelioma of Ciliary Border 871 290.—Superficial epithelioma of Lower Eyelid 871 291. ... Superficial Discoid epithelioma 872 293.—Rodent Ulcer 873 294. ..."

8. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"Trichoepithelioma papulosum multiplex (Jarisch . epithelioma adenoides ... 248 (Multiple benign cystic epithelioma and fibroma in il» same patient. ..."

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