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Definition: Carcinoma In Situ |
Carcinoma In SituNoun1. A cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A malignant tumor that has not yet invaded the basement membrane of the epithelial cell of origin and has not spread to other tissues. (references) |
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Synonym: Carcinoma In SituSynonym: preinvasive cancer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carcinoma In Situ |
| Specialty definitions using "carcinoma in situ": comedo carcinoma ♦ ductal carcinoma in situ ♦ intraductal carcinoma. (references) |
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Health | Of lesions that progress, 10 percent progress to carcinoma in situ and 1 percent to invasive cancer. (references) | |
A 40-year-old individual has a 2-percent chance of being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ in the next 10 years. (references) | ||
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is frequently diagnosed in mammographically screened women ages 40-49. DCIS is a heterogeneous entity for which the natural history, clinical significance, prognostic factors, and treatment are uncertain. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "carcinoma in situ": ductal carcinoma in situ ♦ lobular carcinoma in situ. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
ductal carcinoma in situ | 77 |
carcinoma in situ | 47 |
lobular carcinoma in situ | 20 |
squamous cell carcinoma in situ | 8 |
cervical carcinoma in situ | 6 |
carcinoma in situ of cervix | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "carcinoma in situ"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | carcinoma in situ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | carcinoma intra-epitheliale, carcinoma in situ. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | carcinome in situ, cancer non invasif, cancer intra-épithélial, cancer in situ, cancer au stade O. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Carcinoma praeinvasivum, Carcinoma in situ, Ca endoepidermale, praeinvasives Karzinom, Oberflaechenkarzinom, intraepitheliales Karzinom. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | καρκίνωμα IN SITU. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | carcinoma duttale in situ (ductal carcinoma in situ). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | arcinomacay inay itusay carcinoma in situ (O-carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: criminations, unitarianism. | |
-4 letters: acoustician, crimination, marinations, ruminations. | |
-5 letters: accusation, animations, antiracism, carcinomas, carnations, incautions, insinuator, insouciant, macaronics, manicurist, marination, morticians, muscarinic, nicotianas, ruinations, rumination, sanatorium, sanitarium, sanitorium, unitarians, unromantic, urinations. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: circumnavigations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 63 69 6E 6F 6D 61 49 6E 53 69 74 75 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01101101 01100001 00100000 01001001 01101110 00100000 01010011 01101001 01110100 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r c i n o m a   I n   S i t u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0063 0069 006E 006F 006D 0061 0049 006E 0053 0069 0074 0075 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678469758081796724380253758687 |
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