Pathology · Nervous System · Hard
Oligodendroglioma
Meaning: Usually slow-growing brain tumour arising from myelin-producing glial cells.
In practice: Seizures in a young adult led to the diagnosis of an oligodendroglioma.
Word parts
- oligo- means few
- -oma means a lump, mass or tumour
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