NEUROEPITHELIOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuroepithelioma mean? 

• NEUROEPITHELIOMA (noun)
  The noun NEUROEPITHELIOMA has 1 sense:

1. malignant tumor of the neuroepithelium

  Familiarity information: NEUROEPITHELIOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROEPITHELIOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malignant tumor of the neuroepithelium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("neuroepithelioma" is a kind of...):

malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor (a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in transcriptional activation and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuroepithelioma.

(FLI1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of cancers that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing (EOE) tumors, primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET or peripheral neuroepithelioma), and Askin tumors (PNET of the chest wall).

(EFTs, NCI Dictionary)