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CARCINOMA
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Irregular inflected form: carcinomata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("carcinoma" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carcinoma"):
cancer 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)
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)
hepatocarcinoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatoma; malignant hepatoma (carcinoma of the liver)
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)
Derivation:
carcinomatous (being or relating to carcinoma)
Context examples:
A carcinoma that arises from the intestinal tract of the mouse and has spread to other anatomic sites.
(Metastatic Carcinoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma that has spread to the bone from another, primary anatomic site.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
The majority of metastatic neoplasms to the bone are carcinomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
The majority of cases are metastatic carcinomas, and less frequently lymphomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Adrenal Gland, NCI Thesaurus)
The majority are carcinomas (usually lung or breast carcinomas).
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Brain, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of metastatic cancers to the esophagus include breast and lung metastatic carcinomas and melanomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include metastatic melanoma and metastatic breast and gastric carcinomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts, NCI Thesaurus)
A lobular breast carcinoma which has spread from the original site of growth to another anatomic site.
(Metastatic Lobular Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A ductal breast carcinoma which has spread from the original site of growth to another anatomic site.
(Metastatic Ductal Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma that has spread to the liver from another primary anatomic site.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Liver, NCI Thesaurus)
