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Blastoma

Definition: Blastoma

Blastoma

Noun

1. A tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Blastoma

Synonyms: blastocytoma (n), embryonal carcinosarcoma (n). (additional references)

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Expression: Blastoma

Expression using "blastoma": Pulmonary Blastoma. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blastoma

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blastoma

15

  retinal blastoma

8

  blastoma retino

5

  medulla blastoma

4

  glio blastoma

3

  neuro blastoma

3

  blastoma medula

3

  blastoma glioma

2

  blastoma retina

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blastoma

Language Translations for "blastoma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

blastom, tumor (true tumour, tumour), svulst (bulge, true tumour), neoplasme (neoformation, neoplasm, true tumour). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blastoma (true tumour), tumor (true tumour, tumor, tumour), nieuwvorming (coined term, neoformation, neoplasm, true tumour), neoplasma (neoformation, neoplasm, true tumour), gezwel (tissue mass, true tumour, tumor, tumour). (various references)

   

French

  

blastome, tumeur. (various references)

   

German

  

Blastom (true tumour), Wucherung (excrescence, growth, proliferation, proud flesh, rank growth, true tumour), Tumor (gall, true tumour, tumor, tumour), Neubildung (arthroplasty, neoformation, neologism, neoplasm, new entity, regeneration, renewal, true tumour), Neoplasma (neoformation, neoplasm, true tumour), Neoplasie (neoplasia, true tumour), Gewächs (growth, plant, true tumour), Geschwulst (abscess, growth, lump, true tumour, tumor, tumour), echte Geschwulst (true tumour). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βλάστωμα (true tumour), βλαστοκύτωμα. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astomablay

   

Portuguese

  

blastoma (true tumour), blastocitoma (true tumour). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

blastoma (true tumour), tumor (gall, growth, true tumour, tumor, tumour, wart). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Blastoma

Derivations

Words beginning with "blastoma": blastomas, blastomata. (additional references)

Words ending with "blastoma": glioblastoma, medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma. (additional references)

Words containing "blastoma": glioblastomas, glioblastomata, medulloblastomas, medulloblastomata, neuroblastomas, neuroblastomata, retinoblastomas, retinoblastomata. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Blastoma

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-m-o-s-t"

-1 letter: amatols, lambast.

-2 letters: abomas, alamos, almost, amatol, balsam, basalt, bloats, oblast, smalto, somata, stomal, tablas, tamals, tombal.

-3 letters: aboma, alamo, albas, almas, altos, ambos, atlas, atmas, atoms, baals, balas, balms, balsa, basal, blams, blast, blats, bloat, blots, boast, boats, bolas, bolts, botas, lamas, lambs, loams, lotas, malts, moats, molas, molts, omasa, sabot, samba.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-m-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: blastomas.

 

+2 letters: ameloblast, blastomata, catabolism.

 

+3 letters: ambulations, ameloblasts, catabolisms, flamboyants, megaloblast, melanoblast, saltimbocca.

 

+4 letters: ambulatories, amobarbitals, balletomanes, biomaterials, glioblastoma, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, saltimboccas, somnambulant, somnambulate.

 

+5 letters: abnormalities, balletomanias, bombastically, glioblastomas, malabsorption, megaloblastic, neuroblastoma, perambulators, somnambulated, somnambulates, transformable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Blastoma


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 73 74 6F 6D 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    ...    -    ---    --    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#111 &#109 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0073 0074 006F 006D 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3678678586817967

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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