Definitions for carcinoma

carcinoma car·ci·no·ma

Spelling: [kahr-suh-noh-muh]
IPA: /ˌkɑr səˈnoʊ mə/

Carcinoma is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in carcinoma (aaccimnor).

Definitions for carcinoma

noun

  1. a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.

Origin of carcinoma

1715-25; Latin: ulcer, tumor Greek karkínōma; see carcino-, -oma

Examples for carcinoma

Cases of complete occlusion constitute the rule in carcinoma, and the very great exception in ulcer.

Scirrhous, encephaloid and colloid forms of carcinoma occur.

carcinoma of the intestines appears either as cylindrical-cell cancer, as scirrhus, or as gelatinous or colloid cancer.

It is impossible during life to distinguish it from carcinoma.

Stricture due to carcinoma of the intestinal wall occurs usually in the old or middle-aged, and the symptoms come on insidiously.

Doctors now argue that too many diseases fall into the carcinoma diagnosis.

Of the forms of carcinoma, cylinder-cell cancer is the most frequent.

The tumor is rounded in outline and nodular, and varies in size, density, and color according to the form of carcinoma present.

It is most often observed in the sigmoid flexure and ccum, as are the other forms of carcinoma.

Arterial or mixed bleeding occurs in carcinoma and in rodent ulcer, and also from the stumps of badly-occluded piles.

Word Value for carcinoma
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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