Path. [f. as prec. + SARCOMA.] A sarcoma containing lymphoid cells, so as to resemble a lymphatic gland.
1874. Jones & Siev., Pathol. Anat. (ed. 2), 155. When the proportion of cells is very large, Virchow has applied the name lymphosarcoma.
1898. J. Hutchinson, in Arch. Surg., IX. 325. A case in which the adenitis of syphilis … passed on into lympho-sarcoma.
Hence Lymphosarcomatous a.
1880. M. Mackenzie, Dis. Throat & Nose, I. 84. Cases … of the … lympho-sarcomatous character.
