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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly malignant carcinoma of the lungs, composed of small ovoid undifferentiated cells.
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- noun highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas
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