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oligodendroglioma

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oligodendroglioma [‚äl·ə·gō·den‚dräg·lē′ō·mə]
(medicine)
A slowly growing, large, well-defined cerebral glioma, composed of small cells with richly chromatic nuclei and scanty, poorly staining cytoplasm.
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