CARCINOMA (carcinomata)

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Irregular inflected form: carcinomata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does carcinoma mean? 

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

1. any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARCINOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

cancer; malignant neoplastic disease (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carcinoma"):

cancer of the liver; liver cancer (malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort)

adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma (malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium)

breast cancer (cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US)

carcinoma in situ; preinvasive cancer (a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body)

colon cancer (a malignant tumor of the colon; early symptom is bloody stools)

embryonal carcinoma (malignant neoplasm of the testis)

endometrial cancer; endometrial carcinoma (cancer of the uterine lining)

hepatocarcinoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatoma; malignant hepatoma (carcinoma of the liver)

lung cancer (carcinoma of the lungs; one of the commonest forms of cancer)

mesothelioma (a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust)

oat cell carcinoma; small cell carcinoma (highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas)

oral cancer (malignant neoplasm of the lips of mouth; most common in men over the age of 60)

pancreatic cancer (cancer of the pancreas)

seminoma; testicular cancer (malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men)

skin cancer (a malignant neoplasm of the skin)

trophoblastic cancer (malignant neoplasm of the uterus derived from the epithelium of the chorion)

Derivation:

carcinomatous (being or relating to carcinoma)

 Context examples 

A general term used to describe carcinomas arising from epithelial cells that have been transformed into another cells type (metaplastic epithelial cells).

(Metaplastic carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the MET gene are associated with papillary renal carcinoma.

(MET wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinoma which has spread from the original site of growth to another anatomic site.

(Metastatic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Merkel cell cancer, neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin, and trabecular cancer.

(Merkel cell carcinoma, NCI Dictionary)

Also called Merkel cell carcinoma, neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin, and trabecular cancer.

(Merkel cell cancer, NCI Dictionary)

A hepatocellular carcinoma or intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that occurs during adulthood.

(Adult Liver Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A hepatocellular carcinoma occurring in adults.

(Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An infiltrating breast carcinoma with a relatively favorable prognosis.

(Medullary breast carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called carcinomatous meningitis, leptomeningeal carcinoma, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, leptomeningeal metastasis, meningeal metastasis, and neoplastic meningitis.

(Meningeal carcinomatosis, NCI Dictionary)

Also called carcinomatous meningitis, leptomeningeal carcinoma, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, leptomeningeal metastasis, meningeal carcinomatosis, and neoplastic meningitis.

(Meningeal metastasis, NCI Dictionary)