carcinoma
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5.8
- noun
- /ˌkɑr.sɪˈnoʊ.mə/
- Specialized
:
carcinoma
- Of the 22 prophylactic cases, five had pathological evidence of carcinoma on final pathology.
- squamous cell carcinoma
- carcinoma cells
- metastatic carcinoma
So surveillance is really important for the HPV that eventually becomes squamous cell carcinoma.
- So surveillance is really important for the HPV that eventually becomes squamous cell carcinoma.
Examples
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But I have basal cell carcinoma, which is the most treatable form of skin cancer that there is.
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Tiffany has renal cell carcinoma.
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The medical term is brain stem carcinoma, cancer.
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The good news is that there isn't any sign of any remaining carcinoma.
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Anne... your biopsy shows that you have carcinoma of the left breast.
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I knew the pathology report by heart: papillary carcinoma with an unknown primary.
Fiction book (2001) -
A fine needle aspiration of the neck mass revealed squamous cell carcinoma as well.
Academic text (1995) -
Only patients who had biopsy-proven squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx were included in the study.
Academic text (1999) -
We describe what might have been the first reported case of a neuroendocrine carcinoma of the jugular foramen.
Academic text (2008) -
The doctor explained that her diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma, a common type of skin cancer.
Synonyms
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2.7
A serious disease in which body cells grow out of control and spread
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8.0
Cancer cells that grow without control and can destroy nearby tissue
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5.0
A group of harmful cells that grow and spread in the body
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9.6
A cancer that starts in the cells of body glands
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5.2
A cancer that grows into nearby tissue and can spread to other parts of the body
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4.6
A common skin cancer that starts in the flat cells of the middle and outer layers of skin
1
8.3
Cancer that starts in the main cells of the liver
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9.9
A rare fast-growing cancer that starts in cells that help make babies, often in the uterus or other sex organs
A cancer that starts in the thin tissue covering the body or organs
A cancer that starts in the cells of body glands
A cancer that starts in the lining of the womb
A growth made of skin cells that is often cancerous
A very serious cancer made of small round cells that grows and spreads quickly in the lungs
A very dangerous cancer that often starts in the lungs and spreads quickly
A cancer that starts in the liver cells
A cancer in a testicle that looks like tissue from a very early baby
Antonyms
- Specialized
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3.4
A growth in the body that is not cancer and does not spread to other parts
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.4
A group of cancer cells that stay where they started and have not spread to other body parts
- Specialized
1
4.6
A common skin cancer that starts in the flat cells of the middle and outer layers of skin
- Specialized
A cancer in a testicle that looks like tissue from a very early baby
- Archaic
A very dangerous cancer that often starts in the lungs and spreads quickly
- Specialized
A very serious cancer made of small round cells that grows and spreads quickly in the lungs
How Malignant
- Specialized
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9.9
- Specialized
1
5.1
- Specialized
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5.8
- Specialized
1
7.4
- Specialized
3
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
carcinoma = carcin + oma
Formed from Greek combining elements 'carcin-' and the tumor-forming suffix '-oma', neither of which is a standalone, productive English base, so the meaning is not obvious to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Carcinoma comes from Greek parts carcino- meaning 'crab' and -oma meaning 'tumor'. Ancient doctors thought some growths had veins that looked like crab legs, so they used the idea of a 'crab' for these illnesses and the same root also appears in the word cancer. So, carcinoma now means a cancerous tumor that starts in the cells that line the body.