GLIOMA (gliomata)
Dictionary entry overview: What does glioma mean? • GLIOMA (noun)
The noun GLIOMA has 1 sense:
1. a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia
Familiarity information: GLIOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GLIOMA (noun)
Meaning:
A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("glioma" is a kind of...):
brain tumor; brain tumour (a tumor in the brain)
Meronyms (substance of "glioma"):
glia; neuroglia (sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system)
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