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ADENOCARCINOMA
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Irregular inflected form: adenocarcinomata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium
Synonyms:
adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("adenocarcinoma" is a kind of...):
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adenocarcinoma"):
prostate cancer; prostatic adenocarcinoma (cancer of the prostate gland)
Derivation:
adenocarcinomatous (of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma)
Context examples:
A representative example is the adenocarcinoma arising in Barrett esophagus.
(Metaplastic carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (~8.7 kb) is encoded by the human MALAT1 gene.
(Metastasis-Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma which has spread from its original site of growth to another anatomic site.
(Metastatic Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma that arises from the minor salivary glands.
(Minor Salivary Gland Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of a mixed malignant glandular cell population.
(Mixed Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma comprising neoplastic glandular cells containing intracytoplasmic mucin.
(Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An invasive adenocarcinoma composed of malignant glandular cells which contain intracytoplasmic mucin.
(Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A mucinous adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells which resemble the endocervical epithelium.
(Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, Endocervical Type, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma of the breast characterized by the presence of islands of small and uniform cells, surrounded by large amounts of mucin.
(Mucinous Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by cystic changes and the presence of malignant glandular cells which contain intracytoplasmic mucin.
(Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
