angioma cavernosum

angioma /an·gi·o·ma/ (an″je-o´mah) a tumor whose cells tend to form blood vessels (hemangioma) or lymph vessels (lymphangioma); a tumor made up of blood vessels or lymph vessels.angiom´atous

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angioma caverno´sum , cavernous angioma see under hemangioma.

cherry angiomas  bright red, circumscribed, round or oval angiomas, 2 to 6 mm in diameter, containing many vascular loops, due to a telangiectatic vascular disturbance, usually seen on the trunk but sometimes appearing on other areas of the body, as in angioma serpiginosum, and occurring in most middle-aged and older persons.

senile angiomas  cherry a's.

angioma serpigino´sum  a skin disease marked by minute vascular points arranged in rings on the skin.

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angioma cavernosum.

See cavernous hemangioma.