ANGIOMA (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)
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)
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