rhabdomyoma

plural rhabdomyomas · plural rhabdomyomata

1. countableuncountablemedicineA non-cancerous tumor of skeletal muscle.

   Rhabdomyoma is the most common of primary cardiac neoplasms found in infants and children. It is rare in adults. Fifty per cent of patients with rhabdomyoma also have tuberous sclerosis—a familial disease consisting of epilepsy, mental retardation, and adenoma sebaceum.

   1977, J. Kent Trinkle, “Cardiac Neoplasms”, in James D. Hardy, editor, Rhoads Textbook of Surgery: Principles and Practice, 5th edition, volume 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →ISBN, part 12 (The Heart, Arteries, Veins and Lymphatics), chapter 54 (The Heart), page 1660, column 1