Carcinoid

Definition: Carcinoid

Carcinoid

Noun

1. A small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin.

Specialty Definitions: Carcinoid

Domain	Definitions
Health	A type of tumor usually found in the gastrointestinal system (most often in the appendix), and sometimes in the lungs or other sites. Carcinoid tumors are usually benign. (references)
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Crosswords: Carcinoid

Specialty definitions using "carcinoid": 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid ♦ Methysergide ♦ neuroendocrine tumor. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carcinoid

Domain	Title
Books	21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Gastrointestinal Carcinoid - Authoritative Government Documents and Clinical References for Patients and Physicians with Practical Information on Diagnosis and Treatment Options (reference) Carcinoid heart disease : a clinical, pathologic, and therapeutic update (reference) Carcinoid tumors : a clinicopathologic study (reference) Carcinoid Tumors: International Symposium on Pathology, Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects and Therapy January 13-16, 1994 Munich, Germany (reference) Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumors: Histogenetic, Histochemical, Immunohistochemical, Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects (Progress in Histochemistry An) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Carcinoid

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Another rare complication is an endocrine tumor inside the chest or in the stomach, known as a carcinoid. (references)
		The most common forms of ACTH-producing tumors are oat cell, or small cell lung cancer, which accounts for about 25 percent of all lung cancer cases, and carcinoid tumors. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Carcinoid

"Carcinoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carcinoid" is used about 45 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	45	50,900

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

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Expressions: Carcinoid

Expressions using "carcinoid": Carcinoid Heart Disease ♦ Carcinoid Tumor ♦ Malignant Carcinoid Syndrome. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carcinoid

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
carcinoid	98
carcinoid syndrome	94
carcinoid tumor	75
cancer carcinoid	25
carcinoid lung tumor	5
carcinoid lung	4
gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor	4
carcinoid rectal	3
carcinoid liver tumor	3
carcinoid foundation	3
carcinoid heart disease	3
carcinoid symptom syndrome	3
carcinoid differentiated tumor well	2
atypical carcinoid	2
carcinoid dumping syndrome	2
carcinoid crisis	2
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Modern Translations: Carcinoid

Language		Translations for "carcinoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		carcinoid. (various references)

Dutch		carcinoid. (various references)

Finnish		ohutsuolen karsinoidi (carcinoid tumor of intestine, Kulchitsky's cell carcinoma), ohutsuolen argentaffinooma (carcinoid tumor of intestine, Kulchitsky's cell carcinoma). (various references)

French		carcinoïde. (various references)

German		Carcinoid, Karzinoid, Kanzeroid, enterochromaffiner Tumor. (various references)

Greek		καρκινοειδές του εντέρου (carcinoid tumor of intestine, Kulchitsky's cell carcinoma), καρκινοειδές. (various references)

Italian		carcinoide. (various references)

Pig Latin		arcinoidcay

Portuguese		carcinóide. (various references)

Spanish		carcinoide. (various references)
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Derivations: Carcinoid

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carcinoid": carcinoids. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Carcinoid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-i-i-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: cancroid, draconic.
	-2 letters: acronic, conidia, cricoid, crinoid.
	-3 letters: accord, acidic, acinic, anodic, candor, cocain, iconic, inroad, ironic, nordic, ordain, rancid.
	-4 letters: acini, acorn, acrid, adorn, aroid, caird, cairn, canid, circa, conic, coria, croci, danio, daric, dinar, drain, indri, iodic, iodin, ionic, nadir, narco, naric, nicad, noria, oidia, orcin, racon, radii, radio, radon, ranid, ricin.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-i-i-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: carcinoids, diachronic.
	+2 letters: achondritic, cardiogenic, cardiotonic, crocodilian.
	+3 letters: accordionist, cardiotonics, crocodilians, disaccording.
	+4 letters: accordionists, accreditation, archidiaconal, contradicting, contradiction, decorticating, decortication, discordancies, idiosyncratic.
	+5 letters: accreditations, antidemocratic, contradictions, contradictious, contraindicate, decortications, diachronically, radiolucencies, recodification, trichomonacide.
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