Path. Pl. -mata. [mod.L. f. epithēlium, after carcinoma, etc.] (See quot. 1878.)
1872. T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 555. It [cancer] may affect the lining membrane in the form of vegetating epithelioma.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 465. Rindfleisch calls them cicatrical epitheliomata.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 124. Epithelioma and epithelial cancer are terms given to a form of cutaneous cancer from its similarity in structure to the epithelial elements of the natural skin.
