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Answer for the clue "Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue ", 9 letters:
carcinoma

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Word definitions for carcinoma in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context oncology English) An invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer [also: carcinomata (pl)]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE colonic ▪ The most important condition to exclude is colonic carcinoma . ▪ The colonic carcinomas were staged using Dukes's classification. ▪ There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
carcinoma \car`ci*no"ma\ (k[aum]r`s[i^]*n[=o]"m[.a]), n. [L., fr. Gr. karki`nwma, fr. karki`nos crab, cancer. See -oma .] (Med.) A form of malignant cancer arising from epithelial tissue. The term was earlier applied to all forms of cancer, or to certain ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carcinoma is a type of cancer that develops from epithelial cells . Specifically, a carcinoma is a cancer that begins in a tissue that lines the inner or outer surfaces of the body, and that generally arises from cells originating in the endodermal or ectodermal ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"malignant tumor," 1721, from Latin carcinoma , from Greek karkinoma "a cancer," from karkinos "cancer," literally "crab" (see cancer ) + -oma .

Usage examples of carcinoma.

Caroline Lampert, all of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the article reportedly concerns a radical new approach to attacking carcinomas through genetically engineered retroviruses.

Charles Rosenbaum, wrote a letter to the governor informing him that Smith had Stage III large-cell bronchogenic carcinoma that had spread to his lymph nodes.

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.

At craniotomy there was found, not a meningioma as had been hoped, but a huge carcinoma involving the orbitofrontal aspects of both frontal lobes.

Acute appendicitis, bursitis, carcinoma of the lung, myocardial infarction - these terms communicate a specific condition and call for a specific treatment.

It was apeshit insanity trying to bore up into my forehead and spread through my brain like a metastasizing carcinoma.

The biologist believed he had an incurable carcinoma but was terrified of surgery.

He knows what it means when you tell him he has tubercles or Bright's disease, and, if he hears the word carcinoma, he will certainly look it out in a medical dictionary, if he does not interpret its dread significance on the instant.

All are healthy, though one has an incipient carcinoma, which may result in closure some years future.

Ours was a glamorous career, despite the slight risk of developing melanoma T, the vicious carcinoma triggered by long exposure to fusion fields.

In Fusion, it was impossible to shield ourselves from the N-waves that drove the ship, and over time N-waves transmuted ordinary carcinoma to the virulent T form that grew with astonishing speed.

Despite serious condition of patient on admission, the carcinoma responded to a treatment of drugs and went into recession.

A painter friend of that bitch, his name Gideon Dalgleish, had said something on some social occasion or other about driving with a friend through green summer England and being overwhelmed with its somehow, my dear, obscene greenness, a great proliferating green carcinoma, terrifying because shapeless and huge.

Codon 12 of the c-K-ras gene could be supplemented with a single nucleotide, and therefore went the risk of most pancreatic carcinomas and a lot of the colorectal ones, too.

Big juicy metastasized carcinoma right on the large bowel with filaments going out in every direction.