How to Use meningioma in a Sentence

meningioma

noun
  • Most meningiomas arise close to the skull, but in some cases, a tumor can form as far down as the spinal cord.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Doctors rushed her into surgery and removed a meningioma, which grows in the lining around the brain.
    al, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Doctors at Tri-City found a 5-centimeter meningioma tumor in the left lobe of her brain.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • In his waiting area, Chelsea—of the onetime meningioma—stands tall, smiling, with her bike helmet in hand.
    Daphne Beal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2018
  • And in June of that year, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor — a meningioma the size of a lemon, which upon surgery was found to be benign.
    Emma Dibdin, Cosmopolitan, 18 Sep. 2017
  • News anchor Maria Menounos went through a seven-hour surgery to remove a benign meningioma brain tumor the size of a golf ball.
    Megan Friedman, Country Living, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The good news is that Menounos said 99.9% of the tumor, called a meningioma, was removed, and a recent MRI shows her mother's cancer is stable.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 3 July 2017
  • The 39-year-old underwent a successful, complex surgery to remove the meningioma on June 8 — her birthday.
    Julie Jordan, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2017
  • The results showed a tentorial meningioma, a benign tumor located where the brain connects to the brainstem.
    Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Walsh opened up about the diagnosis in a new interview with Cosmopolitan, explaining that she was diagnosed with a benign meningioma the size of a lemon in 2015.
    Nicole Moschella, ajc, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In her first televised interview since undergoing a seven-hour surgery to remove a golf-ball-sized meningioma brain tumor in June, former E!
    Country Living, 21 July 2017
  • In her first televised interview since undergoing a seven-hour surgery to remove a golf-ball-sized meningioma brain tumor in June, former E!
    Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 21 July 2017
  • Renee — who has been married to Scott for over and decade and shares daughter Bailey DeLuca, 10, with him — had previously been diagnosed with two meningioma brain tumors.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Ambiguous results plagued small studies that tested mifepristone to control meningioma, a slow-growing brain tumor with progesterone receptors.
    Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 3 July 2018

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