‖ myoma Path.
(maɪˈəʊmə)
[mod.L., f. Gr. µῦ-ς muscle + -ωµα (cf. σάρκωµα sarcoma).]
A tumour composed of muscular tissue.
| 1875 C. H. Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. 151 Tumours consisting of smooth muscular fibre..have recently received the name of myoma or fibromyoma. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 51 The case of a woman, forty years of age, the subject of myoma of the uterus. |
Hence myˈomatous a., pertaining to a myoma; myoˈmotomy, the removal of a uterine myoma by abdominal section (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1891).
| 1876 Gross Dis. Bladder, etc. 266 A myomatous fibroma. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 May 1045/2 An enormous uterine tumour of the spongy myomatous variety. 1900 Ibid. No. 2053 Epit. Current Lit. 71 Myomotomy for Calcified fibroma. |