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Wilm's tumour (medicine)


Wilm's tumour
<oncology, tumour> Wilm's tumour or nephroblastoma, is a cancerous tumour of the kidney in children.

Wilm's is the most common tumour of the kidney and the most common intra-abdominal tumour in children. The exact cause is unknown, but probably develops in foetal tissue due to an underlying genetic factor. Like retinoblastoma, both sporadic and inherited forms occur.

Believed to be caused by development of homozygosity for a deletion of the tip of the short arm of chromosome 11, which is presumed to contain a tumour suppressor gene.


strangulation (iou)



strangulation noun. M16.
[Latin strangulatio(n-), formed as STRANGULATE: see -ATION.]
The action or process of stopping respiration by compression of the air passage, esp. by a forcible compression of the windpipe; the condition of being so strangled. M16.
Medicine. Constriction so as to stop circulation or the passage of fluids, esp. as a complication of hernia. M18.
Chiefly Biology. A strangulated part; a constriction. rare. E19.
Excessive constriction of a channel or passage. L19.