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Cerebellum blastoma

November 3, 2016 by

Cerebellum blastoma

Cerebellum: The portion of the brain in the back of the head between the cerebrum and the brain stem. Blastoma: A tumor thought to arise in embryonic tissue. The term "blastoma" is commonly used as part of the name for a tumor as, for examples, in glioblastoma and medulloblastoma (types of brain tumors), hepatoblastoma (a liver tumor), nephroblastoma ( Wilms tumor of the kidney), neuroblastoma (a childhood tumor of neural origin), osteoblastoma (a bone tumor) and retinoblastoma (a tumor of the retina).

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