SMALL CELL CARCINOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small cell carcinoma mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL CELL CARCINOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

oat cell carcinoma; small cell carcinoma

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

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

 Context examples 

Various histologic subtypes have been identified and include adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, and small cell carcinoma.

(Bartholin Gland Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This category includes paraganglioma, carcinoid tumor, small cell carcinoma, and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma.

(Laryngeal Neuroendocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

This category includes typical carcinoid tumor, atypical carcinoid tumor, small cell carcinoma, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, and combined carcinoma.

(Lung Neuroendocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A representative example is the lung non-small cell carcinoma.

(Non-Small Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A sensory neuropathy caused by the effects of a distant neoplasm (usually a small cell carcinoma).

(Paraneoplastic Subacute Sensory Neuronopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

An undifferentiated small cell carcinoma that arises from the ovary and is associated with hypercalcemia.

(Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma, Hypercalcemic Type, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes neuroendocrine tumors (well-differentiated endocrine tumors or carcinoid tumors and well differentiated endocrine carcinomas) and neuroendocrine carcinomas (poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas, small cell carcinomas, and large cell neuroendocrine carcinomas).

(Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Lung carcinomas usually arise from the epithelium that lines the bronchial tree (bronchogenic carcinomas), and are classified as small cell or non-small cell carcinomas.

(Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A small cell carcinoma arising from the cervix.

(Cervical Small Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A small cell carcinoma that arises from the breast.

(Breast Small Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)