Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A benign or malignant tumor derived from epithelium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, carcinoma of the skin or mucous membrane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also
epithelial cancer .
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- noun medicine Any
tumor that originates in theepithelium
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue
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Examples
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He was to have a basal cell epithelioma, a form of skin cancer, removed.
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At first glance I took him to be from the South; but as he was pulling at the bell-knob, he having not yet seen me, I noticed on the rim of one ear a well-marked epithelioma, a form of cancer which occurs only after frostbite.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Clinic, a primary epithelioma of the trachea was retarded for 2 years by the use of radium applied by Dr. William S. Newcomet, radium-therapist, and Miss Katherine E. S.haeffer, technician.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Squamous-celled epithelioma is the most frequent type of neoplasm.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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He describes epithelioma very clearly, enumerates its most frequent locations in their order, lays down its bad prognosis, and hence the necessity for early operation with entire removal of the new growth whenever possible.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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The man, if he remembered rightly, had an epithelioma somewhere in his leg, and was quite unfit for service.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Nevertheless, in my enthusiasm, I have diagnosed in this case that a very considerable extent of the cardiac wall was affected by epithelioma.
Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899
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Johnson 6.32 mentions a case of a horn from the scrotum, which was of sebaceous origin and was subsequently supplanted by an epithelioma.
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Harlan 15.22 reports a most extraordinary epithelioma of
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Harlan reports a most extraordinary epithelioma of the orbit in a boy of about five years.
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