granuloma

It turned out the tumour between his eye socket and brain was a cholesterol granuloma, which is a type of benign cyst.

Jain and his colleagues previously showed that bevacizumab could improve drug delivery to TB granulomas.

Once the body's immune system is infected with tuberculosis, it forms granulomas -- tight clusters of white blood cells -- in an attempt to wall off the infection-causing bacteria in the lungs.

Those eggs clog the lungs, spleen, liver and hearts of hosts along with immune cells called granulomas that fight them.

According to the Mayo Clinic, the disease is characterized by the growth of granulomas — tiny groups of inflammatory cells — in any part of the body, most commonly the lungs and lymph nodes.