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Adenocarcinoma

Definition: Adenocarcinoma

Adenocarcinoma

Noun

1. Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Adenocarcinoma

DomainDefinitions

Health

A malignant epithelial tumor with a glandular organization. (references)

Medicine

2)a malignant tumor of the epithelial cells of a gland which typically metastasizes by way of the lymphatics. Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Adenocarcinoma

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Adenocarcinoma is cancer of mucus-producing cells.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adenocarcinoma."

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Synonyms: Adenocarcinoma

Synonyms: glandular cancer (n), glandular carcinoma (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Adenocarcinoma

English words defined with "adenocarcinoma": adenocarcinomatous ♦ prostatic adenocarcinoma. (references)
Specialty definitions using "adenocarcinoma": Caco-2 Cells, Carcinoma, Adenosquamous, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell, Cystadenocarcinoma, Papillary ♦ Herpesvirus 1, Ranid, HT29 Cells ♦ Linitis Plastica ♦ Mammary Tumor Viruses, Mouse, Mucinous Adenocarcinoma ♦ non-small cell lung cancer ♦ Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia ♦ Sebaceous Adenocarcinoma. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Adenocarcinoma

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adenocarcinoma and Other Poems (reference)

  • Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate (reference)

  • Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma (reference)

  • Light and electron microscopic studies on pulmonary adenocarcinoma and peripheral epithelial changes in the lung (reference)

  • Radiotherapeutic Management of Prostate Adenocarcinoma (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Adenocarcinoma

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Ulcerated, endophytic adenocarcinoma of colon. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of adenocarcinoma, colon.Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of renal cell adenocarcinoma, kidney.Credit: CDC.

Gastric adenocarcinoma with ulcerated surface and rolled border. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC.

Exophytic adenocarcinoma of colon. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC.

"Napkin-ring" configuration of colonic adenocarcinoma. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of adenocarcinoma, prostate.Credit: CDC.

  

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Non-Fiction Usage: Adenocarcinoma

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These tumors are predominantly of a single histologic type, adenocarcinoma. (references)

Lymphoma and adenocarcinoma are types of cancer that can develop in the intestine. (references)

There is evidence that H. pylori infection is associated with adenocarcinoma of the body and antrum of the stomach. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Adenocarcinoma

"Adenocarcinoma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adenocarcinoma" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10232,309

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Adenocarcinoma

Expression using "adenocarcinoma": prostatic adenocarcinoma. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "adenocarcinoma": non-adenocarcinoma.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adenocarcinoma

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

adenocarcinoma

557

adenocarcinoma lung

55

metastatic adenocarcinoma

28

colon adenocarcinoma

16

adenocarcinoma cancer

14

breast adenocarcinoma

13

adenocarcinoma prostate

13

adenocarcinoma lung cancer

12

stomach adenocarcinoma

12

adenocarcinoma treatment

11

adenocarcinoma cervix

11

endometrial adenocarcinoma

11

mucinous adenocarcinoma

11

gastric adenocarcinoma

10

cervical adenocarcinoma

10

mesothelioma adenocarcinoma

9

adenocarcinoma esophageal

9

adenocarcinoma of esophagus

8

renal adenocarcinoma

8

adenocarcinoma lung treatment

6
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Modern Translations: Adenocarcinoma

Language Translations for "adenocarcinoma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

腺癌. (various references)

   

Danish

  

adenokarcinom (adenomatoid carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma), adenocarcinom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma, glandular tumefaction, glandular tumor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

adenocarcinoom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), adenocarcinoma (adenomatoid carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma), klierbuiscarcinoom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), glandulair carcinoom (glandocellular carcinoma), carcinoma adenomatosum (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

adenokarsinooma (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), rauhassyöpä (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma). (various references)

   

French

  

adéno-carcinome, adénocarcinome (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), adénocancer (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), carcinome cellules glandulaires, cancer glandulaire (adenomatoid carcinoma), épithélioma glanduliforme (adenomatoid carcinoma). (various references)

   

German

  

Adenokarzinom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), Druesenkrebs, Carcinoma glandocellulare (glandocellular carcinoma), Carcinoma adenomatosum (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), Carcinoma adenomatoides (adenomatoid carcinoma). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδενωματώδες καρκίνωμα, αδενοκαρκίνωμα (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma). (various references)

   

Italian

  

adenocarcinoma (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), adenocancro (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), carcinoma ghiandocellulare (glandocellular carcinoma), carcinoma adenomatoso (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), carcinoma adenomatoide (adenomatoid carcinoma), cancro ghiandolare (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adenocarcinomaay

   

Portuguese

  

adenocarcinoma. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adenocarcinoma (adenomatoid carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma), carcinoma glandular (glandocellular carcinoma). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

papillärt adenocarcinom (papillary adenocarcinoma, polypoid adenocarcinoma). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Adenocarcinoma

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

carcinoma adenomatosum. (various references)

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Derivations: Adenocarcinoma

Derivations

Words beginning with "adenocarcinoma": adenocarcinomas, adenocarcinomata, adenocarcinomatous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Adenocarcinoma

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-r"

-3 letters: nonacademic.

-4 letters: noncardiac.

-5 letters: accordion, aeronomic, androecia, cacodemon, carcinoma, condemnor, dominance, draconian, macaronic, microcode, oceanaria, ordinance.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: adenocarcinomas.

 

+2 letters: adenocarcinomata.

 

+4 letters: adenocarcinomatous.

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Alternative Orthography: Adenocarcinoma


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 64 65 6E 6F 63 61 72 63 69 6E 6F 6D 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01101101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0065 006E 006F 0063 0061 0072 0063 0069 006E 006F 006D 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3570718081696784697580817967

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions 		9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations 		13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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