Definitions for: Carcinoma

[n] any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer

Webster (1913) Definition: Car`ci*no"ma, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? crab, cancer.
See -oma.] (Med.)
A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an
indolent tumor. See Cancer. --Dunglison.

See Also: adenocarcinoma, breast cancer, cancer, cancer of the liver, carcinoma in situ, colon cancer, embryonal carcinoma, endometrial cancer, endometrial carcinoma, glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma, hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoma, liver cancer, lung cancer, malignant hepatoma, malignant neoplastic disease, mesothelioma, oat cell carcinoma, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, preinvasive cancer, seminoma, skin cancer, small cell carcinoma, testicular cancer, trophoblastic cancer

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