LIVER CANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liver cancer mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVER CANCER (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cancer of the liver; liver cancer

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

liver disease (a disease affecting the liver)

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