Adenopathy
enlargement or disease of the glands, especially the lymphatic glands:
a patient with prominent adenopathy.
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Historical Examples
This adenopathy is marked, discrete and painful, the glands often exquisitely tender on pressure.
Handbook of Medical Entomology William Albert Riley
noun (pathol)
enlargement of the lymph nodes
enlargement of a gland
adenopathy ad·e·nop·a·thy (ād’n-ŏp’ə-thē)
n.
Swelling or abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes.
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- Adenophlegmon
adenophlegmon adenophlegmon ad·e·no·phleg·mon (ād’n-ō-flěg’mŏn’) n. Acute inflammation of a gland and the adjacent connective tissue.
- Adenopharyngitis
adenopharyngitis adenopharyngitis ad·e·no·phar·yn·gi·tis (ād’n-ō-fār’ĭn-jī’tĭs) n. Inflammation of the adenoids and the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue.
- Adenosalpingitis
adenosalpingitis adenosalpingitis ad·e·no·sal·pin·gi·tis (ād’n-ō-sāl’pĭn-jī’tĭs) n. Nodular thickening of the tunica muscularis of the isthmic portion of the fallopian tube enclosing glandlike or cystic duplications of the lumen. Also called salpingitis isthmica nodosa.
- Adenosarcoma
a complex tumor containing both glandular and connective tissues. adenosarcoma ad·e·no·sar·co·ma (ād’n-ō-sär-kō’mə) n. A malignant tumor arising simultaneously or consecutively in mesodermal tissue and glandular epithelium.
- Adenosis
abnormal development or enlargement of glandular tissue. any disease of a gland. adenosis ad·e·no·sis (ād’n-ō’sĭs) n. pl. ad·e·no·ses (-sēz’) A disease of a gland, especially one marked by the abnormal formation or enlargement of glandular tissue.