Meanings
plural glioblastomas · plural glioblastomata
- A fast-growing, malignant tumor of the brain.
Hardy Fox[…] died on Oct. 30 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 73. His husband, Steven Kloman, said the cause was glioblastoma.
2018 November 4, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Hardy Fox, of the Avant-Garde Band the Residents (Maybe), Dies at 73”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas—tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 71
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Catalan glioblastoma
- glioblastomafast-growing tumor of the brain
Finnish glioblastooma
- glioblastoomafast-growing tumor of the brain
French glioblastome
- glioblastomefast-growing tumor of the brain
German Glioblastom
- Glioblastomfast-growing tumor of the brain
Greek γλοιοβλάστωμα
- γλοιοβλάστωμα (gloiovlástoma)fast-growing tumor of the brain
Hungarian glioblasztóma
- glioblasztómafast-growing tumor of the brain
Italian glioblastoma
- glioblastomafast-growing tumor of the brain
Russian глиобластóма
- глиобластóма (glioblastóma)fast-growing tumor of the brain
Spanish glioblastoma
- glioblastomafast-growing tumor of the brain
Swedish glioblastom
- glioblastomfast-growing tumor of the brain
Turkish glioblastom
- glioblastomfast-growing tumor of the brain
Cite this entry
glioblastoma. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glioblastoma
“glioblastoma.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glioblastoma. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glioblastoma,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glioblastoma.
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