ALVEOLAR RHABDOMYOSARCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma mean? 

• ALVEOLAR RHABDOMYOSARCOMA (noun)
  The noun ALVEOLAR RHABDOMYOSARCOMA has 1 sense:

1. form of rhabdomyosarcoma occurring mainly in adolescents and young adults

  Familiarity information: ALVEOLAR RHABDOMYOSARCOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALVEOLAR RHABDOMYOSARCOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form of rhabdomyosarcoma occurring mainly in adolescents and young adults

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma; alveolar rhabdosarcoma

Hypernyms ("alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma" is a kind of...):

rhabdomyosarcoma; rhabdosarcoma (a highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle)

 Context examples 

Also, mutations or translocations involving the gene are associated with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

(PAX3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with rare variants of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

(PAX3/FOXO4 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma and rare cases of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.

(PAX7/FOXO1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

(FOXO1/PAX3 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphological variant of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma that occurs in children.

(Childhood Mixed Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma characterized by the presence of large striated muscle cells with clear cytoplasm, giant cells with myoblastic differentiation, and fibrovascular septa.

(Conventional Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

In alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, the wild-type allele is involved in a translocation t(1;13)(p36;q14) with the FOXO1 wild-type allele.

(PAX7 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma composed of alveolar and embryonic components.

(Mixed Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

(ARMS, NCI Dictionary)