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noun
A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, oncology, sciences
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noun
a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); 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: chondrosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, Ewing's tumor, Ewing's tumour, endothelial myeloma, Kaposi's sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, myosarcoma, neurosarcoma, malignant neuroma, osteosarcoma, osteogenic sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, rhabdosarcoma, Wilms' tumor, Wilms tumour, adenomyosarcoma, nephroblastoma, embryoma of the kidney
History
From Latin sarcoma, from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx); by surface analysis, sarc- + -oma.
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