carcinoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmə/
ipa: /ˌkɑːsnˈəʊmə/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹsɪˈnoʊmə/
ipa: /-sə-/
rhymes: -əʊmə
ipa: /ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmətə/
ipa: /ˌkɑːsnˈəʊmətə/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹsɪˈnoʊmətə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
ipa: /ˌkɑːsɪnəʊˈmɑːtə/
ipa: /ˌkɑːsnəʊˈmɑːtə/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹsɪnoʊˈmɑtə/
Forms: form: carcinomas
form: carcinomata
Etymology: Learned 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.
The plural form carcinomata is a learned borrowing from Latin carcinōmata, from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐνώμᾰτᾰ (kărkĭnṓmătă).
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
examples: text: Take the fatteſt and fulleſt Figs you can get, lay them upon the ugly and ill favored tumor called Carcinoma, i. the Canker, ſo it be not yet exulcerat, I aſſure you it is a ſoveraine remedie, and hardly can be matched againe: […]
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXIII.] Of Peares, and the Properties Observed in Them. Of Tame Figge Trees, and Their Figges. Of the Wild Figge Tree. Of Erineus, and Other Plants, with the Medicines which They Affourd..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 167:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
Hypernyms: cancer
malignancy
Hyponyms: adenocarcinoma
lymphoma
Coordinate terms: sarcoma
Derived terms: adenocarcinoma
adenoid cystic carcinoma
adenoidcystic carcinoma
adenosquamocarcinoma
adrenocarcinoma
anticarcinoma
basal cell carcinoma
carcinomagenesis
carcinomal
carcinomatoid
carcinomatophobia
carcinomatosis
carcinomatous
carcinomic
chimney sweep's carcinoma
cholangiocarcinoma
cholangocarcinoma
cholioangiocarcinoma
choriocarcinoma
comedocarcinoma
cystadenocarcinoma
cystoadenocarcinoma
cystocarcinoma
dysgerminoma
embryocarcinoma
fibrocarcinoma
gastroadenocarcinoma
gastrocarcinoma
hepatocarcinoma
hepatocellular carcinoma
hepatocholangiocarcinoma
hidradenocarcinoma
laryngocarcinoma
lymphadenocarcinoma
macrocarcinoma
mastocarcinoma
melanocarcinoma
metaplastic carcinoma
microcarcinoma
nasopharyngeal carcinoma
nephrocarcinoma
nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome
nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
osteocarcinoma
paracarcinoma
porocarcinoma
prostatic adenocarcinoma
renal cell carcinoma
small-cell carcinoma
squamoadenocarcinoma
teratocarcinoma
tetracarcinoma
Related terms: word: carcinoembryonic
word: carcinogen
word: carcinogenesis
word: carcinogenic
word: carcinoid
word: carcinosis
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