pheochromocytoma
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9.9
- noun
- /ˌfiːoʊˌkroʊməˈsaɪtoʊmə/
- Specialized
- So I ran a battery of tests on Mr. Miller including specific tests for pheochromocytoma because this tumor runs in his family and comes with intense headaches.
Examples
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In patients with pheochromocytoma, high plasma catecholamine levels are known to induce reversible cardiomyopathy.
Academic text (2016) -
Now we are aware of the family history of CVA and pheochromocytoma and that he's had some form of these headaches since childhood.
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So maybe something like a pheochromocytoma.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now it was an almost classic story of pheochromocytoma, and each version got even more classic, so that by the time the last consultation had finished with her, the diagnosis was so obvious that even a medical student could have made it, much less an intern!
Fiction book (1991) -
(Google it: pheochromocytoma.)
Blog text (6) -
In fact, "pheochromocytoma" is formalized as a direct child of "retroperitoneal neoplasms" in NCIT.
Academic text (2016) -
She was diagnosed with right-sided pheochromocytoma, which was surgically treated with an adrenalectomy.
Academic text (2007) -
She was diagnosed with recurrent pheochromocytoma and then underwent a left cortical-sparing adrenalectomy with implantation of adrenal tissue in the left forearm.
Academic text (2007) -
After undergoing various tests, the doctor confirmed that he had a pheochromocytoma, which explained his unusual high blood pressure.
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The patient experienced severe headaches and rapid heart rate due to a pheochromocytoma that was discovered in her adrenal gland.
Surface Forms
Morphology
pheochromocytoma = pheo + chromo + cyt + oma
The word is a technical medical coinage made from Greek combining forms and the medical suffix '-oma', which is not productive or transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Pheochromocytoma breaks into parts: pheo- 'dark', chromo- 'color', -cyto- 'cell', and -oma 'tumor'. It was named because the tumor's cells turn dark when they are stained in the lab, so the word literally means a 'dark-coloured cell tumor' and fits the adrenal gland tumor that makes too much adrenaline and causes high blood pressure.