CARCINOMA (carcinomata)

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does carcinoma mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARCINOMA (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("carcinoma" 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 "carcinoma"):

cancer of the liver; liver cancer (malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort)

skin cancer (a malignant neoplasm of the skin)

seminoma; testicular cancer (malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men)

pancreatic cancer (cancer of the pancreas)

oral cancer (malignant neoplasm of the lips of mouth; most common in men over the age of 60)

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

mesothelioma (a rare form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust)

lung cancer (carcinoma of the lungs; one of the commonest forms of cancer)

hepatocarcinoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatoma; malignant hepatoma (carcinoma of the liver)

endometrial cancer; endometrial carcinoma (cancer of the uterine lining)

embryonal carcinoma (malignant neoplasm of the testis)

colon cancer (a malignant tumor of the colon; early symptom is bloody stools)

carcinoma in situ; preinvasive cancer (a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body)

breast cancer (cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US)

adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma (malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium)

trophoblastic cancer (malignant neoplasm of the uterus derived from the epithelium of the chorion)