Definitions for carcinomas

carcinomas car·ci·no·ma

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

Carcinomas is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 695 anagrams from letters in carcinomas (aaccimnors).

Definitions for carcinomas

noun

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

Origin of carcinomas

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

Examples for carcinomas

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

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

It is impossible during life to distinguish it from carcinoma.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scirrhous, encephaloid and colloid forms of carcinoma occur.

Word Value for carcinomas
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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