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One of the four major types of cancer
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sarcoma
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sarcoma \Sar*co"ma\, n.; pl. L. Sarcomata (# or #), E. sarcomas . [NL., from Gr. ?, from sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh.] (Med.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "fleshy excrescence," Medical Latin, from Greek sarkoma "fleshy substance" (Galen), from sarkoun "to produce flesh, grow fleshy," from sarx (genitive sarkos ) "flesh" (see sarcasm ) + -oma . Meaning "harmful tumor of the connective tissue" first ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sarcoma (from the Greek σάρξ sarx meaning "flesh") is a cancer that arises from transformed cells of mesenchymal origin. Thus, malignant tumors made of cancellous bone , cartilage , fat , muscle , vascular , or hematopoietic tissues are, by definition, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context oncology English) A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
Usage examples of sarcoma.
In another case, in a white male of thirty, the same author successfully performed a hip-amputation for a large sarcoma of the left femur.
They were at the Mayo Clinic, and this kid had just been diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma of the left wrist.
Goodman had developed a vaccine for treating many of the viruses which can cause cancer, such as Rous sarcoma and Epstein-Barr.
Because some animal tumors, like poultry sarcoma, are caused by viruses, a lot of people set to work hunting like mad for all kinds of cancer viruses.
The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
He asked what Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii could possibly have in common.
There are colostomy bags and projectile vomiting and cirrhotic discharges and missing limbs and misshapen heads and incontinence and Kaposi's Sarcoma and suppurating sores and all different levels of enfeeblement and impulse-control-deficit and damage.
It's a form of cancer called osteogenic sarcoma and it's metastatic.
He extirpated the spongioblastoma in his own private hospital or at least the hospital Tissue Committee examined what he said he had removed from Don Lavin's skull, and this indisputably was spongioblastoma multiforma, consisting of round, elongated, and piriform cells, characteristically recalling the varied cytological picture in osteogenic sarcoma of bone.
He extirpated the spongioblastoma in his own private hospital- or at least the hospital Tissue Committee examined what he said he had removed from Don Lavin's skull, and this indisputably was spongioblastoma multiforma, consisting of round, elongated, and piriform cells, characteristically recalling the varied cytological picture in osteogenic sarcoma of bone.
It was deadly and incurable, and if the opportunistic pneumonia didn’t get you, the fast-spreading sarcomas surely would.