OSTEOSARCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does osteosarcoma mean? 

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

1. malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTEOSARCOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

osteogenic sarcoma; osteosarcoma

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

sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)

 Context examples 

The prognosis is more favorable than conventional osteosarcoma.

(Low Grade Central Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples include metachronous osteosarcoma of the bones that develops in patients with known primary bone osteosarcoma, and metachronous Wilms' tumor that affects the opposite kidney in patients with a history of Wilms' tumor.

(Metachronous Malignant Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

An osteosarcoma arising from the liver.

(Liver Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A high grade osteosarcoma which arises from the surface of the bone.

(High Grade Surface Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An osteosarcoma arising from the soft tissues.

(Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A conventional osteosarcoma characterized by the presence of spindle shaped cells.

(Fibroblastic Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A bone osteosarcoma that has metastasized to skeletal or extraskeletal sites.

(Metachronous Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary bone osteosarcoma affecting multiple bone sites.

(Multifocal Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with a better prognosis than conventional osteosarcoma.

(Periosteal Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A low grade osteosarcoma that arises on the surface of bone.

(Parosteal Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)