'Vegetative Growth'? What the heck is that?

bluerose
bluerose Member Posts: 1,104
edited March 2014 in Ovarian Cancer #1
Anyone know what that means? Got a report back from a pelvic ultrasound and never saw that term before. Of course I will ask my oncologist just wondered if anyone had heard of it before. I think it's on the cyst they found but apparently it hadn't shown up in the previous scan. Vegetative? What, am I growing broccoli in there now? Oh joy, something new, sigh.

Any feedback on this terminology? Didn't want to google it then scare the heck out of myself so thought I would ask.

Thanks.

Blue

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  • MK_4Dani
    MK_4Dani Member Posts: 314
    #2
    Never heard it in reference
    Never heard it in reference to OVCA. Keep us posted on how the doctor explains. If he says you are growing vegetables...run...do not walk...to another doctor!

    LOL...Broccoli...you are funny!

    Mary
  • kathryn1
    kathryn1 Member Posts: 88 Member
    #3
    Googled definition
    vegetative medical dictionary


    1. Concerned with growth and with nutrition.

    2. Functioning involuntarily or unconsciously, as the vegetative nervous system.

    3. Resting, denoting the portion of a cell cycle during which the cell is not involved in replication.

    4. Of, pertaining to or characteristic of plants.

    (11 Mar 2008)

    I would guess number 3. Let's hope that it's not broccoli :)

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