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SMALL CELL CARCINOMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("small cell carcinoma" is a kind of...):
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
Context examples:
A morphologic variant of small cell lung carcinoma in combination with a non-small cell carcinoma.
(Combined Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A lung carcinoma characterized by a combination of small cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
(Combined Small Cell and Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A lung carcinoma characterized by a combination of small cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.
(Combined Small Cell Lung Carcinoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It includes carcinoid tumor, small cell carcinoma pulmonary type, and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma.
(Ovarian Neuroendocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
It includes small cell carcinoma, hypercalcemic type and small cell carcinoma, pulmonary type.
(Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Morphologically, it resembles the small cell carcinoma that arises from the lung.
(Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma, Pulmonary Type, NCI Thesaurus)
Carcinomas that arise from the extrahepatic bile ducts are adenocarcinomas, adenosquamous carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas, small cell carcinomas, or mucoepidermoid carcinomas.
(Bile Duct Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples are small cell carcinoma, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, and Merkel cell carcinoma.
(Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
GD2 is overexpressed in malignant melanoma, neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, and small cell carcinoma of the lung.
(Monoclonal Antibody 14G2A, NCI Thesaurus)
GD2 is a ganglioside which is overexpressed in malignant melanoma, neuroblastoma, and small cell carcinoma of the lung.
(Iodine I 131 Monoclonal Antibody 3F8, NCI Thesaurus)
