SARCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sarcoma mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARCOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sarcoma" 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 "sarcoma"):

chondrosarcoma (a malignant neoplasm of cartilage cells)

endothelial myeloma; Ewing's sarcoma; Ewing's tumor; Ewing's tumour (malignant tumor in bone marrow (usually in the pelvis or in long bones))

Kaposi's sarcoma (a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS)

leiomyosarcoma (sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate)

liposarcoma (sarcoma of fat cells)

myosarcoma (sarcoma of muscle tissue)

malignant neuroma; neurosarcoma (a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue)

osteogenic sarcoma; osteosarcoma (malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur)

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

adenomyosarcoma; embryoma of the kidney; nephroblastoma; Wilms' tumor; Wilms tumour (malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass)

 Context examples 

A regimen consisting of doxorubicin, ifosfamide and methotrexate used for the treatment of unresectable soft tissue sarcoma.

(AIM Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Alveolar soft part sarcoma usually occurs in the legs, but can also occur in the arms, hands, head, or neck.

(Alveolar soft part sarcoma, NCI Dictionary)

A synovial sarcoma that has metastasized to other anatomic sites. —2003

(Metastatic Synovial Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common types are Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

(AIDS-Related Malignant Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

A synovial sarcoma characterized by the presence of an epithelial or a spindle cell component only.

(Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

FAP is a 95 kDa cell surface glycoprotein and an inducible tumour stromal antigen of epithelial cancers and of a subset of soft tissue sarcomas.

(Monoclonal Antibody F19, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare Kaposi sarcoma that arises from the appendiceal wall.

(Appendix Kaposi Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell lysate derived from sarcoma cells with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Autologous Sarcoma Cell Lysate, NCI Thesaurus)

Two translocations of this gene are associated with angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma and clear cell sarcoma.

(ATF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An epithelioid sarcoma which has spread to another anatomic site.

(Metastatic Epithelioid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)