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US
/ˌkɑɹsəˈnoʊmə/
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[ UK /kˌɑːsɪnˈəʊmɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˌɑːsɪnˈəʊmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
How To Use carcinoma In A Sentence
- The clinico-pathological features of this model resemble human peritoneal carcinomatosis. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- I had ductal carcinoma in situ in the left breast and the right, just, atypia which are cells that you want to keep an eye on. CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006
- Transplacental transfer of small - cell carcinoma of lung.
- It may also have a role in evaluation and surveillance of patients with inoperable carcinomas.
- The classic cribriform pattern of intraductal carcinoma of the breast is shown here.
- There are about 7,000 such maladies, most of them serious, that have few or no drugs to treat them, from adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare head and neck cancer, to Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, which is associated with a tumor that causes the production of high levels of stomach acid. Push to Cure Rare Diseases
- Crile Jr. and S. O. Hoerr, “Results of Treatment of Carcinoma of the Breast by Local Excision,” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics 132 1971: 780–82. The Emperor of All Maladies
- Squamous cell carcinoma lesions vary in appearance and usually appear as dull, red lesions with scaling and induration.
- Bright's disease, and, if he hears the word carcinoma, he will certainly look it out in a medical dictionary, if he does not interpret its dread significance on the instant. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
- Beginning in 1972 they exposed teratocarcinoma cells to a very strong chemical agent that caused mutations, and then injected the mutated cancer cells into mice to see if there was a genetic pattern to the weird variations that grew out of the tumor; as a control they injected other mice with unmutated teratocarcinoma cells. Vaccinating Against Cancer