CARCINOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carcinoid mean? 

• CARCINOID (noun)
  The noun CARCINOID has 1 sense:

1. a small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin

  Familiarity information: CARCINOID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARCINOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("carcinoid" is a kind of...):

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

 Context examples 

The most common associations are tumors of the bronchus (oat cell or carcinoid), thymic tumors (epithelial or carcinoid), and pancreatic endocrine tumor.

(Ectopic ACTH Secretion Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients with MEN 1 may develop hyperparathyroidism and parathyroid gland adenomas, pituitary gland adenomas, pancreatic islet cell neoplasms, and carcinoid tumors.

(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may develop hyperparathyroidism and parathyroid gland adenomas, pituitary gland adenomas, pancreatic islet cell neoplasms, and carcinoid tumors.

(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include paraganglioma, carcinoid tumor, and neuroendocrine carcinoma.

(Neuroendocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A well differentiated, low grade neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid tumor) that arises from the duodenum.

(Duodenal Neuroendocrine Tumor G1, NCI Thesaurus)

A well differentiated, low grade neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid tumor) that arises from the descending colon.

(Descending Colon Neuroendocrine Tumor G1, NCI Thesaurus)

Heredity accounts for up to 35 percent of small intestinal carcinoid, a rare digestive cancer, according to findings from a team at the National Institutes of Health.

(Study finds genetic link for rare intestinal cancer, NIH)

In addition, YF476 may inhibit ECL cell proliferation and ECL-derived gastric carcinoids.

(Cholecystokinin B Receptor Antagonist YF476, NCI Thesaurus)

A well differentiated, low grade neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid tumor) that arises from the colon.

(Colon Neuroendocrine Tumor G1, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant epithelial neoplasm composed of a mixture of neuroendocrine cells with morphologic and immunohistochemical characteristics of carcinoid tumor and malignant glandular cells.

(Combined Carcinoid and Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)