car·ci·no·ma (kär s -n  m)n. pl. car·ci·no·mas or car·ci·no·ma·ta (-m -t) An invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body. [Latin, cancerous ulcer, from Greek karkin ma, from karkinos, cancer; see kar- in Indo-European roots.]car ci·noma·toid (-nm-toid) adj.car ci·noma·tous (-n m-ts, -nm-) adj. |
carcinoma [ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmə]
n pl -mas, -mata [-mətə] Pathol
1. (Medicine / Pathology) any malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue
2. (Medicine / Pathology) another name for cancer [1]
[from Latin, from Greek karkinōma, from karkinos cancer]
carcinomatoid , carcinomatous adj
| carcinoma (kärs-nm) Plural carcinomas or carcinomata (kär s-nm-t) Any of various cancerous tumors that are derived from epithelial tissue of the skin, blood vessels, or other organs and that tend to metastasize to other parts of the body. See also basal cell carcinomasquamous cell carcinoma |
carcinoma
1. a malignant tumor that may spread to surrounding tissue and distant areas of the body.
2. any kind of epithelial cancer. — carcinomatous, adj.
See also: Cancer
2. any kind of epithelial cancer. — carcinomatous, adj.
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| Noun | 1. |  carcinoma - any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancercancer of the liver, liver cancer - malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort cancer, malignant neoplastic disease - any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream adenocarcinoma, glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma - malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium breast cancer - cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US carcinoma in situ, preinvasive cancer - a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body colon cancer - a malignant tumor of the colon; early symptom is bloody stools embryonal carcinoma - malignant neoplasm of the testis endometrial cancer, endometrial carcinoma - cancer of the uterine lining lung cancer - carcinoma of the lungs; one of the commonest forms of cancer mesothelioma - a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust oat cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma - highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas oral cancer - malignant neoplasm of the lips of mouth; most common in men over the age of 60 pancreatic cancer - cancer of the pancreas seminoma, testicular cancer - malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men skin cancer - a malignant neoplasm of the skin trophoblastic cancer - malignant neoplasm of the uterus derived from the epithelium of the chorion |
Translations
carcinoma
n → Karzinom nt
malignant tumor The surgeons had to remove the carcinoma from his lungs karsinoom, kankergeswel سَرَطانٌ في الأنْسِجَه раково образование rakovinný nádor, karcinom kræft; cancer der Karzinom carcinoma kartsinoom کاسینوم؛ غده سرطانی لایه بیرونی پوست بدن carcinome גִדוּל מַמאִיר एक प्रकार का कैंसर karcinom carcinoma 癌種 암종 karcinoma barah carcinoom злокачественная опухоль karcinóm karcinom มะเร็ง kanser, kötücül ur 惡性瘤 ракове новоутворення, карцинома مہلک کینسر کا پھوڑا ung thư biểu mô 恶性瘤
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