SKIN TUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin tumor mean? 

• SKIN TUMOR (noun)
  The noun SKIN TUMOR has 1 sense:

1. a neoplasm originating in the epidermis

  Familiarity information: SKIN TUMOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN TUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A neoplasm originating in the epidermis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acanthoma; skin tumor

Hypernyms ("skin tumor" is a kind of...):

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

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

keratoacanthoma (skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar)

 Context examples 

A benign skin tumor characterized as a small, dome-shaped dermal nodule composed of fibroblasts in a dense collagenous background with storiform organization.

(Circumscribed Storiform Collagenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A rapidly growing, dome-shaped skin tumor that usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the body, especially around the head and neck.

(Keratoacanthoma, NCI Dictionary)

Reciprocal translocations between chromosomes 17 and 22, where this gene and the gene for platelet-derived growth factor beta are located, are associated with a particular type of skin tumor called dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, resulting from unregulated expression of the growth factor.

(Collagen I (Alpha 1), NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)