Medical term:
angiomyoma
angioleiomyoma
[an″je-o-li″o-mi-o´mah]a leiomyoma arising from vascular smooth muscle, usually a solitary, nodular, sometimes painful, tumor on the lower limb in middle-aged women; it is often more deeply situated than ordinary leiomyoma and is usually subcutaneous.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
vas·cu·lar lei·o·my·o·ma
a markedly vascular leiomyoma, apparently arising from the smooth muscle of blood vessels.
Synonym(s): angioleiomyoma, angiomyofibroma, angiomyoma
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
angioleiomyoma
(1) A benign smooth muscle tumour that can occur any place in the body, arising in the tunica media of vessel walls as a nodular subcutaneous nodule; more common on the lower leg of middle-aged women.(2) A skin lesion consisting of a solitary deeply eosinophilic well-circumscribed nodule in the deep dermis of acral skin which histologically consists of spindled cells.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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