A tumor or neoplasm composed of or arising from connective tissue.
From Greek 'desmos' (bond, ligament) + '-oma' (tumor, swelling). The '-oma' suffix is universally used in medicine to denote tumors or abnormal growths.
The suffix '-oma' appears in hundreds of medical terms (carcinoma, melanoma, lymphoma), which shows how doctors created a universal vocabulary system to describe different types of tumors by their origin tissue.
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