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GLANDULAR CANCER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does glandular cancer mean?

• GLANDULAR CANCER (noun)
The noun GLANDULAR CANCER has 1 sense:

1. malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium

Familiarity information: GLANDULAR CANCER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GLANDULAR CANCER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma

Hypernyms ("glandular cancer" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glandular cancer"):

prostate cancer; prostatic adenocarcinoma (cancer of the prostate gland)

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