CARCINOSARCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carcinosarcoma mean? 

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

1. a malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARCINOSARCOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor (a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body)

 Context examples 

It includes endometrioid adenocarcinoma, endometrioid adenocarcinofibroma, and carcinosarcoma.

(Malignant Ovarian Endometrioid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma, a malignant epithelial tumor arising from a pre-existing pleomorphic adenoma and carcinosarcoma which is characterized by a mixture of malignant epithelial and sarcomatous elements.

(Malignant Mixed Tumor of the Major Salivary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

This category includes carcinosarcoma, carcinofibroma, and adenosarcoma.

(Malignant Uterine Corpus Mixed Epithelial and Mesenchymal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include endometrial carcinoma, carcinosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and adenosarcoma.

(Malignant Uterine Corpus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

The malignant mural nodules histologically are anaplastic carcinomas, carcinosarcomas, or sarcomas.

(Ovarian Mucinous Cystic Tumor with Mural Nodules, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include malignant mixed mesodermal (Mullerian) tumor of the female reproductive system and carcinosarcoma of the salivary gland and the lung.

(Malignant Mixed Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include carcinoma, carcinosarcoma, and leiomyosarcoma.

(Malignant Fallopian Tube Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinosarcoma that arises from the fallopian tube.

(Fallopian Tube Carcinosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

These tumors have been classified in the past as fibrosarcomas, carcinosarcomas, or metaplastic carcinomas.

(Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition Tumor of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

This category includes adenofibroma, adenomyoma, adenosarcoma, and carcinosarcoma.

(Cervical Mixed Epithelial and Mesenchymal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)