lymphosarcoma

[ lim-foh-sahr-koh-muh ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lymphosarcoma¹

From New Latin, dating back to 1870–75; lympho-, sarcoma

Example Sentences

Yale University researchers in New Haven, Connecticut, first treated cancer with nitrogen mustard in 1942; the patient died of lymphosarcoma a year before the Germans attacked the Italian harbour.

From Nature

The speaker is Sandy, a pretty, warm-eyed young widow who had been pregnant with her second child when doctors had diagnosed her husband's lymphosarcoma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of 40 cases examined, in only one, of lymphosarcoma complicated with tuberculosis, were myelocytes found in the blood, amounting to about 0.5-1.0% of the white blood corpuscles.

From Project Gutenberg

For example, Reinbach describes several cases of malignant tumour, particularly sarcoma, in which the percentage of lymphocytes, which normally amounts to about 25%, was very considerably lowered; in one case of lymphosarcoma of the neck they only made up 0.6% of the total number.

From Project Gutenberg

Reinbach has found them in a case of lymphosarcoma with metastases in the bone-marrow.

From Project Gutenberg