glioma

1. 1.

   a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia

   Broaderbrain tumor

Other forms of glioma

plural

gliomata

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glioma

What does glioma mean?

glioma means "a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia".

How many syllables are in glioma?

glioma has 3 syllables: gli-o-ma. The stress falls on "gli".

Is glioma a common word?

glioma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.