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noun
An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: medicine, oncology, sciences
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noun
A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
Topics: medicine, oncology, sciences
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noun
any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cancer, malignant neoplastic disease
Narrower terms: liver cancer, cancer of the liver, adenocarcinoma, glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma, breast cancer, carcinoma in situ, preinvasive cancer, colon cancer, embryonal carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma, endometrial cancer, hepatoma, malignant hepatoma, hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, lung cancer, mesothelioma, oat cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, seminoma, testicular cancer, skin cancer, trophoblastic cancer
History
Learned borrowing from Latin carcinōma (“tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”), from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐ́νωμᾰ (kărkĭ́nōmă, “sore, ulcer; cancer”), from καρκινόω (karkinóō, “to make (something) resemble a crab”, in the mediopassive "to become cancerous; to suffer from cancer") + -μᾰ (-mă, action noun suffix). Καρκινόω is derived from καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab; the zodiac sign Cancer; sore, ulcer; cancer”) (according to Paul of Aegina (c. 625 – c. 690) in his Medical Compendium in Seven Books, because the veins surrounding a cancerous tumour resemble a crab’s legs). The English word is a doublet of cancer, and may be analysed as carcino- + -oma. The plural form carcinomata is a learned borrowing from Latin carcinōmata, from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐνώμᾰτᾰ (kărkĭnṓmătă).
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