teratoma
/tɛrəˈtəʊmə/
构词拆解
- terato-
- (medicine) Pertaining to birth defects and similar abnormalities.
- -oma
- (pathology) Forming nouns indicating disease or morbidity. · (pathology, specifically) Forming nouns indicating tumors or masses, which may be non-neoplastic or (more often) neoplastic, and (if the latter) either benign or malignant (cancerous); in accord with present-day understanding of histopathology, the suffix is now nonproductive for non-neoplastic senses.
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- 英语English
teratoma
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释义
名词noun
- 1(pathology) A benign or malignant tumour, especially of the gonads, that arises from germ cells and consists of different types of tissue such as skin, hair, or muscle.