Path. Pl. lymphomata. [f. LYMPH, after carcinoma, etc.] A tumor having the structure of a lymphatic gland.
1873. T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 142. The Lymphomata are new formations consisting of lymphatic … tissue.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 590. Sharp, who distinguishes between lymphosarcoma and lymphadenoma, considers that each starts from a lymphoma.
Hence Lymphomatous a., of the nature of or resembling a lymphoma.
1876. Trans. Clinical Soc., IX. 87. An examination of the growth microscopically did not show … that it was lymphomatous.
1892. W. Osler, Princ. Med., 27. The lymphomatous nephritis … produces as a rule no symptoms.
