gliomatosis Path.
(ˌglaɪəʊməˈtəʊsɪs)
[ad. G. gliomatose (F. Schultze 1882, in Arch. f. path. Anat. und Physiol. und f. klin. Med. LXXXVII. 535), f. mod.L. gliōmat-, glioma + -osis.]
A diffuse proliferation of glia cells associated with or arising from a glioma; gliosis.
| 1886 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. I. 436 The neuroglia may be regarded as a persistent, slightly modified, embryonal tissue, and these exuberant masses of tissue bear considerable resemblance in structure to glioma, so that the condition has been called ‘gliomatosis’. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 48 From syringomyelia and central gliomatosis it may be impossible to distinguish the later results of hæmatomyelia. 1924 R. Muir Text-bk. Path. xvii. 624 Intermediate varieties are met with, between a distinct tumour and a more diffuse overgrowth which may be called gliomatosis... Gliomatosis occurs also in relation to the central canal of the spinal cord in connection with syringomyelia. 1947 W. R. Brain Dis. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 3) iii. 225 Sometimes a glioma seems to arise diffusely, as in so-called ‘gliomatosis cerebri’, or from multible centres at the same time. 1959 Russell & Rubinstein Path. Tumours Nerv. Syst. ii. 33 Diffuse gliomatosis of the pia-arachnoid of the spinal cord was recorded by Harbitz (1932, case 1), the glioma apparently being of astrocytic character. |