Also known more succinctly as adenomyosis (pronounced
ad-den-o-mi-o- sis), this is a common benign condition of the uterus in which the
endometrium (the mucous membrane lining the inside of the uterus) grows into the
myometrium (the uterine musculature located just outside the endometrium) The endometrium
and myometrium under normal circumstances live adjacent to one another as discrete
neighbors. In adenomyosis, the endometrium invades the myometrium. The myometrium
may respond to this intrusion with muscular overgrowth. If an island of endometrial
tissue is contained and circumscribed within the myometrium, it forms a nodule called
an adenomyoma (plural: adenomyomata). Adenomyosis is made up of adeno (gland) +
myo (muscle) +osis (a condition of) = a condition of glandular tissue (referring
to the endometrium) in the muscle (the myometrium). Adenomyosis goes by several
other names including endometriosis interna or uterina, and adenomyometritis.
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