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LEIOMYOSARCOMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("leiomyosarcoma" is a kind of...):
sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)
Context examples:
A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of leiomyosarcoma and endometrial stromal sarcoma, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system.
(Leiomyosarcoma and Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma Pathologic TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)
A morphologic variant of leiomyosarcoma characterized by the presence of epithelioid round cells with eosinophilic to clear cytoplasm.
(Epithelioid Leiomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of malignant gastric soft tissue neoplasms include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma.
(Gastric Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include angiosarcoma, Kaposi sarcoma, and leiomyosarcoma.
(Colon Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of malignant breast soft tissue neoplasms include angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma.
(Breast Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and synovial sarcoma.
(Esophageal Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include angiosarcoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and extraskeletal osteosarcoma.
(Breast Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of neoplastic disorders include papilloma, adenofibroma, carcinoma, leiomyosarcoma, and carcinosarcoma.
(Fallopian Tube Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma.
(Extrahepatic Bile Duct Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare leiomyosarcoma that arises from the appendiceal wall.
(Appendix Leiomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
