RHABDOMYOSARCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhabdomyosarcoma mean? 

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

1. a highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHABDOMYOSARCOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

rhabdomyosarcoma; rhabdosarcoma

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

sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)

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

embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma; embryonal rhabdosarcoma (form of rhabdomyosarcoma occurring mainly in infants and children)

alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma; alveolar rhabdosarcoma (form of rhabdomyosarcoma occurring mainly in adolescents and young adults)

pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma; pleomorphic rhabdosarcoma (form of rhabdomyosarcoma that affects limb muscles of older adults)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and synovial sarcoma.

(Esophageal Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A rhabdomyosarcoma arising from the esophageal wall.

(Esophageal Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes MIR29C RNA, plays a role in lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and type 2 diabetes.

(MIR29C wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A poorly circumscribed morphologic variant of rhabdomyosarcoma.

(Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of carcinomas of the lung and nasopharynx as well as rhabdomyosarcoma and type II diabetes.

(MIR29C Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma.

(Extrahepatic Bile Duct Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

There is an increased risk of malignant transformation to melanoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and poorly differentiated malignant tumors.

(Giant Congenital Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also used to treat rhabdomyosarcoma in children.

(actinomycin D, NCI Dictionary)

It has been described in patients with childhood rhabdomyosarcoma.

(FGFR4 Gene Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used in combination with other drugs to treat Hodgkin disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, and Wilms tumor.

(Oncovin, NCI Dictionary)