Carcinoma

Definitions

1. An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
   countable
2. A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
   countable, obsolete

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Examples

“Take⟳ the fatteſt and fulleſt Figs you can get⟳, lay⟳ them upon the ugly and ill favored tumor called Carcinoma, i. the Canker, ſo it be not yet exulcerat, I aſſure you it is a ſoveraine remedie, and hardly can be matched againe: […]”

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