carcinoma : Idioms & Phrases


carcinoma in situ

  • noun a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body
    preinvasive cancer.
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embryonal carcinoma

  • noun malignant neoplasm of the testis
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endometrial carcinoma

  • noun cancer of the uterine lining
    endometrial cancer.
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glandular carcinoma

  • noun malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium
    adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer.
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hepatocellular carcinoma

  • noun carcinoma of the liver
    hepatoma; hepatocarcinoma; malignant hepatoma.
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oat cell carcinoma

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

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

  • noun the most common form of skin cancer
    cancroid.
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