OAT CELL CARCINOMA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas

Synonyms:

oat cell carcinoma; small cell carcinoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("oat cell carcinoma" is a kind of...):

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

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