Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a tumor composed of cartilaginous and sarcomatous tissue.
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- noun A type of
bone cancer , acartilage -basedtumour .
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- noun a malignant neoplasm of cartilage cells
Etymologies
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Examples
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A third Phase 2 trial on the drug candidate is ongoing, studying its efficacy against a rare, life- threatening cancer of the cartilage, chondrosarcoma.
unknown title 2011
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Shortly after that he was diagnosed with an incredibly rare form of bone cancer called chondrosarcoma.
HM Doug Van Pelt 2010
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Eda Angeline Pardee, co-founder of Tuolumne County's first charter school, died Jan. 18 after a long battle following neurosurgery for chondrosarcoma, a rare cancer.
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CT Scan alternative Healthcare Cost Saving acoustic neuromas pituitary adenomas, neningiomas chordomas metastases glial chondrosarcoma craniopharyngiomas Brian Nelson New data.
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It was only after she travelled to Toronto for a biopsy that it was confirmed: a chondrosarcoma, the size of a Pizza Pop, one of the largest the experts had ever seen.
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Melissa was diagnosed with mesenchymal chondrosarcoma (a cancer in the sarcoma family) in
Jalopnik 2010
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Saving acoustic neuromas pituitary adenomas, neningiomas chordomas metastases glial chondrosarcoma craniopharyngiomas Brian Nelson New data.
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Parker has been battling mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, a rare cartilage/soft tissue tumor, since she was in second grade at the Auburn school.
News for Opelika-Auburn News Opelika-Auburn News 2010
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Saving acoustic neuromas pituitary adenomas, neningiomas chordomas metastases glial chondrosarcoma craniopharyngiomas Brian Nelson New data.
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The woman was diagnosed in 2004 with a malignant cartilaginous bone tumour -- or chondrosarcoma -- and she refused to take doctors 'advice in Kuwait, where she lives, to have half of her pelvis and her right leg removed.
Medindia Health News 2009
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