See Also: benign giant lymph node hyperplasia(medicine)
giant lymph node hyperplasia(medicine)
angiofollicular mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia(medicine)
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mousetrap (iou) and benign giant lymph node hyperplasia (medicine)


mousetrap (iou)



mousetrap noun & verb. LME.
[from MOUSE noun + TRAP noun1.]
A. noun.
A trap for catching mice; fig. a device for enticing a person to destruction or defeat. LME.
T. Middleton Like a mouse-trap baited with bacon. M. R. D. Foot The agents taken in the Villa des Bois mousetrap..were in the noisome Beleyme prison.
More fully mousetrap cheese. Cheese for baiting a mousetrap; poor quality cheese. M17.
Times Farm cheddar that will dazzle the tastebuds accustomed to factory mousetrap.
A very small house. joc. M19.
b. verb trans. Infl. -pp-. Catch (as) in a mousetrap; entice (a person) to destruction or defeat. L19.

benign giant lymph node hyperplasia (medicine)


benign giant lymph node hyperplasia
Solitary masses of lymphoid tissue containing concentric perivascular aggregates of lymphocytes, occurring usually in the mediastinum or hilar region of young adults; similar changes have been reported outside the mediastinum and, if associated with interfollicular sheets of plasma cells, may progress to lymphoma or plasmacytoma.

Synonym: angiofollicular mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia, Castleman's disease.