WILMS' TUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wilms' tumor mean? 

• WILMS' TUMOR (noun)
  The noun WILMS' TUMOR has 1 sense:

1. malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass

  Familiarity information: WILMS' TUMOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILMS' TUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

adenomyosarcoma; embryoma of the kidney; nephroblastoma; Wilms' tumor; Wilms tumour

Hypernyms ("Wilms' tumor" 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 

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)

Daunorubicin is indicated in the treatment of a wide variety of cancers including acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, Ewing's sarcoma, Wilms' tumor, and chronic myelocytic leukemia.

(Daunorubicin Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)