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n. - A common benign tumor of cartilage cells.

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  • # -- Tumours, such as chondroma and sarcoma, and cysts which are probably of the same nature as those met with in osteomyelitis fibrosa, are liable to occur in callus,...
  • There is reason to believe that the tumours of the parotid previously described as adenoma, chondroma, angioma, myxoma, and many of the cases of sarcoma, were really...
  • The non-malignant forms -- osteoma, chondroma, and fibroma -- are rare.
  • A benign tumor forming osteoid is b. a type pf breast abscess a. a synovioma c. a chronic abscess of the bone b. a chondroma d. an abscess arising in the inguinal lymph...
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