acanthoma
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
acanth- + -oma (“tumor consisting of a specified cell”)[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
acanthoma (plural acanthomas or acanthomata)
- (medicine) A neoplasm of the prickle cell layer of the skin
- 1922, James Ewing, Neoplastic Diseases, page 822:
- Warts, both simple and venereal, may be the starting-points of acanthoma.
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Translations[edit]
neoplasm of the prickle cell layer of the skin
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