xanthomyeloma

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noun

A lipid-filled myeloma associated primarily with tendon sheaths.

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Meanings

nounxanthomyeloma (plural xanthomyelomas or xanthomyelomata)

plural xanthomyelomas · plural xanthomyelomata

  1. medicineA lipid-filled myeloma associated primarily with tendon sheaths.

    The complete absence of fat from the tumour seemed to show that it differed from a xanthomyeloma of a tendon sheath.

    1925, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, page 17
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    Xanthomyelomas are in most cases connected with tendon sheaths and constitute the commonest type of tendon-sheath tumor.

    1924, International Medical and Surgical Survey, page 650

Origin

From xantho- + myeloma.

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