Carcinoma

Definition: Carcinoma

Carcinoma

Noun

1. Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer.

Date "carcinoma" was first used: 1721. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Carcinoma

Domain	Definitions
Health	Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs. (references)
Medicine	Tumor derived from epithelial tissue and composed primarily of epithelial cells. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Carcinoma

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
sq cell ca	English	Sqamous cell carcinoma	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Carcinoma

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Carcinoma

English words defined with "carcinoma": carcinoma in situ, carcinomatous, carcinosarcoma ♦ embryonal carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma ♦ glandular carcinoma ♦ hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoma ♦ keratoacanthoma ♦ lung cancer ♦ malignant hepatoma, megesterol, megestrol acetate, mesothelioma ♦ oat cell carcinoma ♦ small cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carcinoma": alpha-Fetoproteins, arsenical carcinoma ♦ basal cell carcinoma ♦ Carcinoma, Adenosquamous, Carcinoma, Bronchogenic, Carcinoma, Ehrlich Tumor, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating, Carcinoma, Islet Cell, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell, Cervix Dysplasia, clear cell carcinoma, comedo carcinoma, Cyproterone ♦ ductal carcinoma in situ ♦ epidermoid carcinoma, epithelial carcinoma ♦ Gastric Stump ♦ Hela Cells, Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, Woodchuck ♦ intraductal carcinoma ♦ KB Cells ♦ Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Ki-1 ♦ Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus, Medrogestone, metaplastic carcinoma, Mohs Surgery, mucinous carcinoma ♦ Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary, neuroendocrine tumor, nonseminoma, non-small cell lung cancer ♦ Orthohepadnavirus ♦ Proto-Oncogene Protein c-met ♦ renal cell carcinoma, renal-cell carcinoma, Retroviruses Type B, Mammalian, Retroviruses Type D ♦ Sialometaplasia, Necrotizing, signet ring cell carcinoma, skin carcinoma, Streptonigrin ♦ Tissue Polypeptide Antigen, transitional cell carcinoma, Tumor Cells, Cultured ♦ Ureteral Neoplasms, Urethral Neoplasms ♦ Vindesine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carcinoma" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (carcinoma, carcinomata), Italian (carcinoma), Latin (ca, carcinona), Portuguese (carcinoma), Spanish (carcinoma).

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Commercial Usage: Carcinoma

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Adrenocortical Carcinoma (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Carcinoma of the Bladder: Innovations in Management (reference) Carcinoma of the Kidney and Testis, and Rare Urologic Malignancies: Innovations in Management (Medical Radiology) (reference) Carcinoma of the Prostate: Innovations in Management (reference) Endometrial Carcinoma and Precursors (reference) Local Prostatic Carcinoma (Contributions to Oncology, Vol 47) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Carcinoma

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shown is a mammogram of a breast with a whitish area diagnosed as colloid carcinoma.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		(a) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with blood vessels at the periphery of tumor. Magnification x100. (b) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with vessels at the periphery of tumor. Magnification x200. (c) cross section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with a small foci of breast cancer cells in which cd34 antibody has stained blood vessels and basement membrane. Magnification x100. (d) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast shows intense blood vessel proliferation in stromal tissue adjacent to the malignant tissue. Magnification x200.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Histological section showing cervical cancer specifically squamous cell carcinoma in the cervix. Tissue is stained with pap stain and magnified x200.Credit: Unknown photographer.		An infiltrating ductal carcinoma of human breast tissue, magnified x330, is seen surrounding a normal duct (1). The cancer cells (2) are larger and more irregular than their normal counterparts (3). The cytoplasm of the tumor cells is stained with a monoclonal antibody which recognizes a carcinoembryonic type antigen (cea) found within the malignant cells. The monoclonal antibody was developed in the NCI research laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Schlom.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	An infiltrating ductal carcinoma of human breast origin is seen invading the breast tissue. The cytoplasm of the tumor cells is stained brown with a monoclonal antibody, which recognizes a carcinoembryonic type antigen (CEA) found within the malignant cells. The monoclonal antibody was developed at the NCI laboratory of Dr. Jeffery Schlom. Magnification is 313x.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Histopathology of follicular carcinoma, thyroid.Credit: CDC.
	Histopathology of papillary carcinoma, thyroid. A psammoma body is visible.Credit: CDC.		This patient presented with tertiary syphilitic gummas of the nose mimicking basal cell carcinoma. The gummatous tumors are benign and if properly treated, will heal and the patient will recover in most cases.Credit: CDC.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carcinoma

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, the biopsy showed early squamous cell carcinoma. (references)
		Patients with clear cell carcinoma require adjuvant therapy. (references)
		Chronic infection also causes gastritis and gastric carcinoma. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Carcinoma

"Carcinoma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carcinoma" is used about 315 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
Noun (singular)	100%	315	16,262

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

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Expression: Carcinoma

Expressions using "carcinoma": arsenical carcinoma ♦ basal cell carcinoma ♦ carcinoma in situ ♦ clear cell carcinoma ♦ comedo carcinoma ♦ ductal carcinoma in situ ♦ embryonal carcinoma ♦ endometrial carcinoma ♦ epidermoid carcinoma ♦ epithelial carcinoma ♦ glandular carcinoma ♦ hepatocellular carcinoma ♦ intraductal carcinoma ♦ lobular carcinoma in situ ♦ metaplastic carcinoma ♦ mucinous carcinoma ♦ oat cell carcinoma ♦ renal cell carcinoma ♦ signet ring cell carcinoma ♦ skin carcinoma ♦ small cell carcinoma ♦ squamous cell carcinoma ♦ transitional cell carcinoma. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "carcinoma": adenoma-carcinoma.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carcinoma

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
squamous cell carcinoma	466	squamous carcinoma	25
basal cell carcinoma	428	endometrial carcinoma	24
carcinoma	277	breast carcinoma	23
renal cell carcinoma	129	non small cell carcinoma	23
ductal carcinoma in situ	77	bronchogenic carcinoma	22
basil cell carcinoma	75	merkel cell carcinoma	21
ductal carcinoma	67	renal carcinoma	20
small cell carcinoma	62	lobular carcinoma in situ	20
hepatocellular carcinoma	62	basal carcinoma cell picture	20
invasive ductal carcinoma	50	carcinoma epidermoide	19
carcinoma in situ	47	invasive lobular carcinoma	18
infiltrating ductal carcinoma	38	metastatic carcinoma	18
adeno carcinoma	38	lung carcinoma	16
adenoid cystic carcinoma	37	squamous cell carcinoma picture	15
nasopharyngeal carcinoma	34	large cell carcinoma	15
lobular carcinoma	33	thyroid papillary carcinoma	15
transitional cell carcinoma	33	clear cell carcinoma	15
papillary carcinoma	29	carcinoma cancer	15
basel cell carcinoma	27	basal cell carcinoma treatment	15
carcinoma basocelular	27	oat cell carcinoma	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carcinoma

Language		Translations for "carcinoma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tumor kanzeroz. (various references)

Arabic		‏ورم سرطاني, ‏سرطان (cancer, crab). (various references)

Bulgarian		рак (cancer), карцинома. (various references)

Chinese		癌 (cancer, erythema, leucoderm). (various references)

Czech		karcinom. (various references)

Danish		carcinom (epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

Dutch		carcinoom (but which may also spread via blood vessels, cancer, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

Finnish		pahanlaatuinen ihosyöpä (epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

French		carcinome (skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

German		karzinom (cancer, carcinona, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, malignant growth, skin cancer, skin carcinoma, tumours of jaw), Krebsgeschwulst (cancer). (various references)

Greek		καρκίνωμα (canker, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

Hungarian		rákos daganat, rákos betegség. (various references)

Italian		carcinoma (but which may also spread via blood vessels, cancer, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		癌腫 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		が�"しゅ (praying at a temple or shrine for help to stop drinking, temple petitioner). (various references)

Korean		�". (various references)

Manx		kahngyr (malignancy). (various references)

Pig Latin		arcinomacay

Portuguese		carcinoma (epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

Russian		рак (cancer, crab, crawfish, crayfish, lobster), карцинома (cancer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rak (cancer, canker, clam, crawfish, crayfish), karcinom. (various references)

Spanish		carcinoma (but which may also spread via blood vessels, cancer, cancrum, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma, ulcerative lesion). (various references)

Swedish		carcinom, cancertumor, malign epitelial hudtumör (epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma), hudcancer (cancroid, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma), epiteliom (epithelial tumor, epithelioma, malignant epithelioma, skin cancer, skin carcinoma). (various references)

Turkish		kanser (cancer), kötücül ur. (various references)

Ukranian		ракове новоутворення, карцинома. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Carcinoma

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	karkinoma. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carcinoma

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carcinoma": carcinomas, carcinomata, carcinomatoses, carcinomatosis, carcinomatous. (additional references)
	Words ending with "carcinoma": adenocarcinoma, choriocarcinoma, teratocarcinoma. (additional references)
	Words containing "carcinoma": adenocarcinomas, adenocarcinomata, adenocarcinomatous, choriocarcinomas, choriocarcinomata, teratocarcinomas, teratocarcinomata. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carcinoma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arcinoma, Calcinema, calcinoma, Caracciola, carcenoma, carcimona, carcinima, carcinom, carcinomata, cardinoma, Cardisoma, carignon, carinoma, carsanoma, Garcinia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carcinoma"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carcinoma" (pronounced kÄ'rsunō"mu)
5	-u n ō" m u	melanoma.
3	-ō" m u	aroma, coma, diploma, douma, glaucoma, lymphoma, mesothelioma, papilloma, retinoblastoma, soma, stroma.
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Anagrams: Carcinoma

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: macaronic.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-m-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: armonica, macaroni, marocain.
	-2 letters: acromia, acronic, carioca, manioca, minorca, ocarina.
	-3 letters: acinar, airman, anomic, arnica, caiman, camion, carina, carman, cocain, crania, macaco, macron, maniac, manioc, marina, micron.
	-4 letters: acari, acmic, acorn, amain, amino, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, aroma, cacao, cairn, carom, circa, comic, conic, coria, croci, inarm, macon, macro, mania, manic, manor, maria, micra.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-m-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: carcinomas, cochairman, macaronics.
	+2 letters: carcinomata, monarchical.
	+3 letters: cochairwoman, microbalance, panchromatic.
	+4 letters: acronymically, aeromechanics, carcinomatous, microanalytic, microbalances, monarchically.
	+5 letters: adenocarcinoma, anticommercial, antidemocratic, carcinomatoses, carcinomatosis, carcinosarcoma, cyanobacterium, monosaccharide, noncharismatic.
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