Students are welcome to take as much time as they like to practice before demonstrating skill competency. Skills will be evaluated on a pass/needs remediation basis. If skills are not successfully completed, students will be remediated by the instructor(s). Students may practice and be reevaluated.
A relatively rare, usually benign neoplasm originating in the chemoreceptor tissue of the carotid body, glomus jugulare, and aortic bodies. Compare: paraganglioma. Synonym(s): glomus jugulare tumor. [ chemo- + G. dektÄs, receiver, fr. dechomai, to receive, + -oma, tumor].
Synonym(s): aortic body tumor, carotid body tumor, nonchromaffin paraganglioma. [chemo- + G. dektÄs, receiver, fr. dechomai, to receive, + -oma, tumor]. /cheÂ·moÂ·decÂ·toÂ·ma/ (-dek-toÂ´mah) any benign, chromaffin-negative tumor of the chemoreceptor system, e.g., a carotid body tumor or glomus jugulare tumor.