chondroma
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- noun
- /kɒnˈdroʊmə/
- Specialized
- In rare cases, patients may present with symptoms related to a chondroma located near the joint.
Examples
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The most common benign tumors include osteomas, chondromas, giant cell tumors (the most common), cysts, and osteoid osteomas.
Academic text (2006) -
The doctor diagnosed her condition as a benign chondroma, which is a tumor made of cartilage cells.
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Primary cartilaginous neoplasms of the larynx include chondromas and chondrosarcomas.
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Complicating this clinical diagnostic challenge is the fact that it is difficult to differentiate between benign chondromas and the various degrees of malignant chondrosarcomas.
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The radiologic differential diagnosis included pigmented villonodular synovitis, synovial sarcoma, chondroma, osteochondroma, or a parotid lesion.
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After a thorough examination, the specialist confirmed that the chondroma was nonmalignant and required no immediate treatment.
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Morphology
chondroma = chondro (opaque) = chondro + oma
The term is built from technical combining forms that are unfamiliar to average learners, so the meaning 'cartilage tumor' is not reliably inferable.
Etymology
Chondroma comes from the Greek root chondro- meaning 'cartilage' and the ending -oma meaning 'tumor'. So a chondroma is a growth made of cartilage cells and is usually noncancerous.