Term: leiomyoma (or fibroids, or myoma)
Literally meaning: “growth of smooth muscles”
Origin: Anc Greek
λείος/leios(=smooth) > αλέω/aleo(=to grind)
+μυο-/myo-(=comping form meaning muscle) > μυς/mys/
(=muscle) > μύω/myo(=enclosed like the muscle
inside body or rat in its nest=epimys)
+(-ωμα)/(-oma)=suffix denoting state
or condition of mass growth
Coined/History
Leiomyoma was known as “the uterine stone” by Hippocrates
(460-375 B.C) or “scleromas” by Galen
(ca 130-200). The term fibroids was
coined in 1860 by Karl von Rokitansky and in 1863 by M.M. Klob but in 1854 German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1905)
demonstrated that these lesions were composed from smooth muscles and introduced the term myoma.
Source
Nilo Bozini, Edmund C
Baracat, Division of Ginecology- Medical School of University of Sao Paolo. The
history of Myomectomy at the Medical School of University of Sao Paolo. Clinics
vol 62 no3 (2007).
Definition
Leioma is a benign smooth muscle tumour most often in uterus, esophagus
and small bowel.
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