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blastoma

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /blæstˈoʊmə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: B L AE2 S T OW1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A tumour that is caused by malignancies in precursor cells or blasts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tumor, tumour, neoplasm

History

Etymology

From blast- + -oma.

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 胚細胞瘤 /胚细胞瘤 (pēixìbāoliú) — type of tumour
  • Finnish: blastooma — type of tumour
  • French: blastome — type of tumour
  • German: Blastom — type of tumour
  • Italian: blastoma — type of tumour
  • Japanese: 芽細胞腫 (gasaibōshu) — type of tumour
  • Russian: бласто́ма (blastóma) — type of tumour
  • Serbo-Croatian: бла̀сто̄м — type of tumour
  • Serbo-Croatian: blàstōm — type of tumour
  • Turkish: blastom — type of tumour