‖ tuberculoma Path.
(tjuːbɜːkjʊˈləʊmə)
Pl. -omas, -omata. Also anglicized tuˈberculome.
[mod.L. tūberculōma, f. tūbercul-um tubercle, after sarcoma, etc.]
A tumour or abscess caused by the tubercle-bacillus.
| 1897 Lippincott's Med. Dict. 1076/1 Tuberculoma. 1903 Nature 5 Mar. 431/2 If the tuberculous abscess or tuberculome is not too large, a cure may be effected by a simple washing with an antiseptic liquid. 1908 E. A. Peters in T. N. Kelynack Tuberculosis in Infancy & Childhood vii. 55 Seward has collected a hundred cases of other forms of tuberculosis of the nose—e.g., tuberculoma and ulcer—from a great many sources. 1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxx. 508 Intracranial tumours (including neoplasms and such lesions as tuberculomata) produce two sets of symptoms. 1974 J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery x. 215/1 A tuberculoma, a round focus over 1 cm in diameter, which has failed to disappear after adequate chemotherapy. |