ANGIOMA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: angiomata

Meaning:

A tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("angioma" is a kind of...):

angiopathy (any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts)

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angioma"):

haemangioma; hemangioma (benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks)

lymphangioma (benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels)

spider angioma; spider nevus; vascular spider (a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate)

Derivation:

angiomatous (of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma)