glioblastoma Path.
(glaɪəʊblæˈstəʊmə)
[f. glioma + -blast + -oma.]
= spongioblastoma. glioblastoma multiˈforme, a fast-growing malignant glioma of the cerebrum in which there are cells of many kinds, most of them resembling spongioblasts.
| 1926 Bailey & Cushing Class. Tumors of Glioma Group v. 95 One might..designate the..[bipolar and unipolar spongioblasts] as bipolar and unipolar glioblasts... One would then employ glioblastoma multiforme and unipolare in the place of spongioblastoma multiforme and unipolare. 1953 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Feb. 59 Twenty months after the patient's first admission to hospital a cystic glioblastoma multiforme was demonstrated at operation. 1970 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Studies II. xxviii. 4/2 The more rapidly growing and pleomorphic of these tumours [sc. gliomata] are often called glioblastomata. |