glioma

IPA: gɫiˈoʊmʌ

Examples of "glioma" in Sentences

DANIEL BARROW, NEUROSURGEON: Well, a glioma is a tumor that arises from the brain tissue itself.
The prognosis is very dim for people who get this type of malignant glioma, which is what he had.
Survival for this kind of brain tumor we now know that Senator Kennedy has, called a glioma, depends upon where it is in the brain and on the type of glioma.
The word glioma itself typically means that this tumor is coming from the brain, as opposed to coming from somewhere else in the body and having spread to the brain.
In 2004, a rash of early scientific reports suggested that cell phones, which produce radio frequency energy, might cause a fatal form of brain cancer called a glioma.
Her research has focused on the development of the mammalian brain, and particularly on why a malignant and quick-spreading kind of brain tumor called glioma is so deadly.