Adenoma

(ad-en-o'-mah). A tumor that has sprung from a gland or is 'constructed after the type of a secreting gland. A. destruens, a destructive form of adenoma, involving the stomach walls. A. sebaceum, neoplastic papules on the face, of congenital origin but of later development. The disease occupies the position of acne rosacea, e., the middle two-thirds. The lesions are roundish, convex papules, from a millet to a hempseed in size, of a bright crimson color, but may be quite colorle and slightly translucent. They do not pale on pre ure. They are usually a ociated with intellectual inferiority, a large proportion of the patients being imbeciles or chronic epileptics.