glioma Path.
(glaɪˈəʊmə)
Pl. gliˈomata.
[mod.L. gliōma (Virchow), f. Gr. γλί-α glue.]
‘A tumour originating from, and largely consisting of, the neuroglia cells of the central nervous system, esp. of the brain’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885).
| 1870 Paget Lect. Surg. Path. (ed. 3) 471 A group of tumours to which Virchow has given the name Glioma. 1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 121. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 109. |