neu·ro·ma
n, pl -mas or -ma*ta 1 : a tumor or mass growing from a nerve and usu. consisting of nerve fibers 2 : a mass of nerve tissue in an amputation stump resulting from abnormal regrowth of the stumps of severed nerves - called also amputation neuroma .
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