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lymphoma

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

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /lɪmˈfoʊ.mə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊmə
  • CMU ARPABET: L IH0 M F OW1 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, oncology, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cancer, malignant neoplastic disease

Narrower terms: Hodgkin's disease

History

Etymology

From lymph, from Latin lympha (“water”) + -oma (“disease, morbidity”).

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bashkir: лимфома (limfoma) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Catalan: limfoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 淋巴瘤 (línbāliú) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Czech: lymfom — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Dutch: lymfoom — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Finnish: imusolmukesyöpä — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Finnish: lymfooma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • French: lymphome — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Galician: linfoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • German: Lymphom — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Greek: λέμφωμα (lémfoma) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Hungarian: limfóma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Icelandic: eitlaæxli — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Icelandic: eitilfrumukrabbamein — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Irish: liomfóma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Italian: linfoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Japanese: リンパ腫 (rinpa-shu) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Kazakh: лимфома (limfoma) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Kyrgyz: лимфома (limfoma) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Latin: lymphoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lymfom — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lymfom — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Persian: لنفوم — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Polish: chłoniaki — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Portuguese: linfoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Russian: лимфо́ма (limfóma) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Spanish: linfoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Swedish: lymfom — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Tamil: நிணநீர்க்குழியப் புற்றுநோய் (niṇanīrkkuḻiyap puṟṟunōy) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Thai: มะเร็งต่อมน้ําเหลือง (máreng dtòm náam lĕuang) — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue
  • Turkish: lenfoma — malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue