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Definition: Adenocarcinoma |
AdenocarcinomaNoun1. Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A malignant epithelial tumor with a glandular organization. (references) |
Medicine | 2)a malignant tumor of the epithelial cells of a gland which typically metastasizes by way of the lymphatics. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AdenocarcinomaSynonyms: glandular cancer (n), glandular carcinoma (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Adenocarcinoma |
| English words defined with "adenocarcinoma": adenocarcinomatous ♦ prostatic adenocarcinoma. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adenocarcinoma": Caco-2 Cells, Carcinoma, Adenosquamous, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell, Cystadenocarcinoma, Papillary ♦ Herpesvirus 1, Ranid, HT29 Cells ♦ Linitis Plastica ♦ Mammary Tumor Viruses, Mouse, Mucinous Adenocarcinoma ♦ non-small cell lung cancer ♦ Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia ♦ Sebaceous Adenocarcinoma. (references) |
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 | Ulcerated, endophytic adenocarcinoma of colon. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of adenocarcinoma, colon.Credit: CDC. |
 | Histopathology of renal cell adenocarcinoma, kidney.Credit: CDC. |  | Gastric adenocarcinoma with ulcerated surface and rolled border. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC. |
 | Exophytic adenocarcinoma of colon. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC. |  | "Napkin-ring" configuration of colonic adenocarcinoma. Surgical specimen.Credit: CDC. |
 | Histopathology of adenocarcinoma, prostate.Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | These tumors are predominantly of a single histologic type, adenocarcinoma. (references) | |
Lymphoma and adenocarcinoma are types of cancer that can develop in the intestine. (references) | ||
There is evidence that H. pylori infection is associated with adenocarcinoma of the body and antrum of the stomach. (references) | ||
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| "Adenocarcinoma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adenocarcinoma" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 102 | 32,309 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "adenocarcinoma": prostatic adenocarcinoma. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "adenocarcinoma": non-adenocarcinoma. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "adenocarcinoma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 腺癌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adenokarcinom (adenomatoid carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma), adenocarcinom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma, glandular tumefaction, glandular tumor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adenocarcinoom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), adenocarcinoma (adenomatoid carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma), klierbuiscarcinoom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), glandulair carcinoom (glandocellular carcinoma), carcinoma adenomatosum (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adenokarsinooma (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), rauhassyöpä (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adéno-carcinome, adénocarcinome (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), adénocancer (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma), carcinome cellules glandulaires, cancer glandulaire (adenomatoid carcinoma), épithélioma glanduliforme (adenomatoid carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Adenokarzinom (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), Druesenkrebs, Carcinoma glandocellulare (glandocellular carcinoma), Carcinoma adenomatosum (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), Carcinoma adenomatoides (adenomatoid carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αδενωματώδες καρκίνωμα, αδενοκαρκίνωμα (adenoepithelioma, adenomatoid carcinoma, adenomatous carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adenocarcinoma (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), adenocancro (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), carcinoma ghiandocellulare (glandocellular carcinoma), carcinoma adenomatoso (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma), carcinoma adenomatoide (adenomatoid carcinoma), cancro ghiandolare (adenoepithelioma, adenomatous carcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adenocarcinomaay adenocarcinoma. (various references) adenocarcinoma (adenomatoid carcinoma, glandocellular carcinoma), carcinoma glandular (glandocellular carcinoma). (various references) papillärt adenocarcinom (papillary adenocarcinoma, polypoid adenocarcinoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carcinoma adenomatosum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adenocarcinoma": adenocarcinomas, adenocarcinomata, adenocarcinomatous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-r" | |
-3 letters: nonacademic. | |
-4 letters: noncardiac. | |
-5 letters: accordion, aeronomic, androecia, cacodemon, carcinoma, condemnor, dominance, draconian, macaronic, microcode, oceanaria, ordinance. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: adenocarcinomas. | |
+2 letters: adenocarcinomata. | |
+4 letters: adenocarcinomatous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 65 6E 6F 63 61 72 63 69 6E 6F 6D 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01101101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d e n o c a r c i n o m a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0065 006E 006F 0063 0061 0072 0063 0069 006E 006F 006D 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3570718081696784697580817967 |
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