Histoma
histoma his·to·ma (hĭ-stō’mə)
n. pl. his·to·mas or his·to·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
A benign tumor having cytologic and histologic elements closely similar to those of normal tissue from which the tumor cells derive.
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