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PREINVASIVE CANCER

Dictionary entry overview: What does preinvasive cancer mean?

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

1. a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body

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

Dictionary entry details

• PREINVASIVE CANCER (noun)

Sense 1

preinvasive cancer ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

carcinoma in situ; preinvasive cancer

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

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

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