spongioblastoma Path.
(ˌspʌndʒɪəʊblæˈstəʊmə)
[ad. G. spongioblastom: see spongioblast s.v. spongio- and -oma.]
A malignant tumour, usu. of the brain or optic nerve, believed to be derived from spongioblasts.
| 1918 Neurol. Bull. I. 276/2 He [sc. Kaufmann] suggests the name columnar cell glioma and provisionally the term spongioblastoma. 1925 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry XIV. 145 They are both—neuroblastomas and spongioblastomas—richly cellular, very proliferative and rapidly growing. 1967 Nursing Times 27 Jan. 108/2 The highly malignant spongioblastoma multiforme which can kill within a month or two of its first symptom. |