‖ hygroma Path.
(haɪˈgrəʊmə)
[medical L., a. Gr. *ὕγρωµα, f. ὑγρός moist: see hygro-. Cf. F. hygroma, hygrome.]
‘A tumour containing serum or other morbid fluid, but not pus; a serous cyst’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1819 in Pantologia. 1846 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 489, I have examined the fluid of an hygroma situated on the lower jaw of a horse. |
Hence hyˈgromatous a., of the nature of or pertaining to a hygroma.
| 1819 Pantologia s.v. Hygroma, Hygromatous tumours. |