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GLANDULAR CARCINOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glandular carcinoma mean?
• GLANDULAR CARCINOMA (noun)
The noun GLANDULAR CARCINOMA has 1 sense:
1. malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium
Familiarity information: GLANDULAR CARCINOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma
Hypernyms ("glandular carcinoma" is a kind of...):
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glandular carcinoma"):
prostate cancer; prostatic adenocarcinoma (cancer of the prostate gland)
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