cementoma
(sɪmɛnˈtəʊmə)
Pl. -omata. Also ceˈmentome.
[f. L. cementum cement n. + -oma.]
(See quot. 1893.)
| 1893 J. B. Sutton Tumours 35 When the capsule of a tooth becomes enlarged,..and these thick capsules ossify, the tooth will become embedded in a mass of Cementum. To this form of odontome the name cementoma may be applied. Ibid., The largest cementome from a horse known to me..weighs seventy ounces. 1910 Practitioner Jan. 124 The curious odontomata known as cementomata. |