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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