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noun
Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
sarcoma of fat cells
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sarcoma
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Hellenic *lípos Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)der. English lipo- English sarcoma English liposarcoma From lipo- + sarcoma.
