Look up: Granuloma

1. granuloma
   Type: Term Pronunciation: gran′yū-lō′mă Definitions: 1. Term applied to nodular inflammatory lesions, usually small or granular, firm, persistent, and containing compactly grouped modified phagocytes (epithelioid cells, giant cells, and other macrophages).
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2. granuloma
   [n] - a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection
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3. granuloma
   Granular growth or tumor, usually of lymphoid and epithelial cells.
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4. Granuloma
   a mass of tissue that forms at a site of inflammation, injury, or infection as a part of the healing process
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5. Granuloma
   Granuloma: A granuloma is one of a number of forms of localized nodular inflammation found in tissues. The fact that a granuloma is localized is important. So is its nodularity. Granulomas have a typical pattern when examined under a microscope. Granulomas can be caused by a variety of biologic, che...
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6. granuloma
   a nodule or neoplasm consisting essentially of granulation tissue,occurring as a result of localized inflammation Category: Medicine
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7. granuloma
   Chronic inflammatory lesion characterized by large numbers of cells of various types (macrophages, lymphocytes, fibroblasts, giant cells), some degrading and some repairing the tissues.
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8. granuloma
   <pathology> Chronic inflammatory lesion characterised by large numbers of cells of various types (macrophages, lymphocytes, fibroblasts, giant cells), some degrading and some repairing the tissues. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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9. granuloma
   (gran″u-lo´mә) pl. granulomas, granulo´mata an imprecise term applied either to any small nodular, delimited aggregation of mononuclear inflammatory cells, or more specifically to a similar collection of modified macrophages resembling epithelial cells, usually surrounded by a rim of lymphocytes, often with m...
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10. granuloma
    (from the article `skin disease`) ...Dermal inflammatory disorders may be acute, as in hemolytic (blood-cell destroying) streptococcal infections leading to cellulitis (diffuse ... [3 related articles]
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11. GRANULOMA
    Lesion indicative of a chronic inflammatory response, characterized by the accumulation of white blood cells around an offending agent for the purpose of walling off the agent from the rest of the body.
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12. Granuloma
    (gran'u-lo'mah) (Latin. Granulum - little grain) Chronic inflammatory tissue composed of macrophages, fibroblasts, and granulation tissue.
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13. Granuloma
    An excessive amount of non-healing tissue in a wound
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14. Granuloma
    | ICD9 = , | ICDO = | OMIM = | MedlinePlus = | eMedicineSubj = | eMedicineTopic = | MeshID = D006099 | --> `Granuloma` is a medical term for a roughly spherical mass of immune cells that forms when the immune system attempts to wall off substances that it perceives as foreign but is unable to eli...
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