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Carcinoma

noun

(pl. carcinomas, carcinomata)

Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer.

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"Carcinoma" Quotes from Famous Books

... disease has fastened its devouring teeth. It is a terrible thing to take away hope, even earthly hope, from a fellow-creature. Be very careful what names you let fall before your patient. He knows what it means when you tell him he has tubercles or Bright's disease, and, if he hears the word carcinoma, he will certainly look it out in a medical dictionary, if he does not interpret its dread significance on the instant. Tell him he has asthmatic symptoms, or a tendency to the gouty diathesis, and he will at once think of all the asthmatic and gouty old patriarchs he has ever heard of, ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... out as absurdly. Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on—in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men. They have, at bottom, the same weaknesses and appetites. They react ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

Words linked to "Carcinoma" : endometrial cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, oral cancer, cancer of the liver, liver cancer, hepatoma, testicular cancer, mesothelioma, cancer, preinvasive cancer, skin cancer, seminoma, glandular cancer, malignant hepatoma, pancreatic cancer, trophoblastic cancer, malignant neoplastic disease