carcinoma
An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize…An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
Meaning
2 senses(countable)An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
Karzinom
карцино́маkarcinóma
карциномаkarcynoma
any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
(countable, obsolete)A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin carcinōma (“tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”), from Ancient Greek κᾰLearned borrowing from Latin carcinōma (“tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”), from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐ́νωμᾰ (kărkĭ́nōmă, “sore, ulcer; cancer”), from καρκινόω (karkinóō, “to make (something) resemble a crab”, in the mediopassive "to become cancerous; to suffer from cancer") + -μᾰ (-mă, action noun suffix). Καρκινόω is derived from καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab; the zodiac sign Cancer; sore, ulcer; cancer”) (according to Paul of Aegina (c. 625 – c. 690) in his Medical Compendium in Seven Books, because the veins surrounding a cancerous tumour resemble a crab’s legs). The English word is a doublet of cancer, and may be analysed as carcino- + -oma.
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Forms
plural: carcinomas / carcinomata| Singular | carcinoma |
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Word family
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