GLANDULAR CANCER

Pronunciation (US):

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 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 ("glandular cancer" 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 "glandular cancer"):

prostate cancer; prostatic adenocarcinoma (cancer of the prostate gland)

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