carcinoma
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin carcinōma (“tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”), from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐ́νωμᾰ (kărkĭ́nōmă, “sore, ulcer; cancer”), from καρκινόω (karkinóō, “to make (something) resemble a crab”, in the mediopassive "to become cancerous; to suffer from cancer") + -μᾰ (-mă, action noun suffix). Καρκινόω is derived from καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab; the zodiac sign Cancer; sore, ulcer; cancer”) (according to Paul of Aegina (c. 625 – c. 690) in his Medical Compendium in Seven Books, because the veins surrounding a cancerous tumour resemble a crab’s legs).[1] The English word is a doublet of cancer, and may be analysed as carcino- + -oma.
The plural form carcinomata is a learned borrowing from Latin carcinōmata, from Ancient Greek κᾰρκῐνώμᾰτᾰ (kărkĭnṓmătă).
Pronunciation
edit- Singular:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmə/, /ˌkɑːsnˈəʊmə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑɹsɪˈnoʊmə/, /-sə-/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊmə
- Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma
- Plural (carcinomata):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmətə/, /ˌkɑːsnˈəʊmətə/[2]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑɹsɪˈnoʊmətə/, /-sə-/, [-ɾə][3]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɑːsɪnəʊˈmɑːtə/, /ˌkɑːsnəʊˈmɑːtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑɹsɪnoʊˈmɑtə/, /-sə-/, [-ɾə]
- Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma‧ta
Noun
editcarcinoma (countable and uncountable, plural carcinomas or carcinomata) (oncology)
- (countable) An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
- (obsolete, countable) A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXIII.] Of Peares, and the Properties Observed in Them. Of Tame Figge Trees, and Their Figges. Of the Wild Figge Tree. Of Erineus, and Other Plants, with the Medicines which They Affourd..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 167:
- 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: […]
Hypernyms
editHyponyms
editCoordinate terms
editDerived terms
edit- adenocarcinoma
- adenoid cystic carcinoma
- adenoidcystic carcinoma
- adenosquamocarcinoma
- adrenocarcinoma
- anticarcinoma
- basal cell carcinoma
- carcinomagenesis
- carcinomal
- carcinomatoid
- carcinomatophobia
- carcinomatosis
- carcinomatous
- carcinomic
- chimney sweep's carcinoma
- cholangiocarcinoma
- cholangocarcinoma
- cholioangiocarcinoma
- choriocarcinoma
- comedocarcinoma
- cystadenocarcinoma
- cystoadenocarcinoma
- cystocarcinoma
- dysgerminoma
- embryocarcinoma
- fibrocarcinoma
- gastroadenocarcinoma
- gastrocarcinoma
- hepatocarcinoma
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- hepatocholangiocarcinoma
- hidradenocarcinoma
- laryngocarcinoma
- lymphadenocarcinoma
- macrocarcinoma
- mastocarcinoma
- melanocarcinoma
- metaplastic carcinoma
- microcarcinoma
- nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- nephrocarcinoma
- nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome
- nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
- osteocarcinoma
- paracarcinoma
- porocarcinoma
- prostatic adenocarcinoma
- renal cell carcinoma
- small-cell carcinoma
- squamoadenocarcinoma
- teratocarcinoma
- tetracarcinoma
Related terms
editTranslations
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See also
edit- basalioma
- encephaloma (dated)
- fibroepithelioma
- melanoma
References
edit- ^ Paulus Ægineta (1846) “Book VI”, in Francis Adams, transl., The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta. Translated from the Greek. With a Commentary Embracing a Complete View of the Knowledge Possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on All Subjects Connected with Medicine and Surgery. […], volume II, London: […] [C. and J. Adlard] for the Sydenham Society, →OCLC, section XLV (On Cancer), page 332: “It [a tumour] has veins stretched on all sides as the animal the crab (cancer) has its feet, whence it derives its name.”
- ^ “"carcinoma." Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary, Lexico”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2022 February 4 (last accessed), archived from the original on 4 February 2022
- ^ "carcinoma." www.merriam-webster.com
Further reading
editAnagrams
editCatalan
editNoun
editcarcinoma m (plural carcinomes)
Further reading
edit- “carcinoma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Interlingua
editNoun
editcarcinoma (plural carcinomas)
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin carcĭnōma (“a cancerous ulcer”), from Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).
Noun
editcarcinoma m (plural carcinomi)
Derived terms
editAnagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kar.kiˈnoː.ma/, [kärkɪˈnoːmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kar.t͡ʃiˈno.ma/, [kärt͡ʃiˈnɔːmä]
Noun
editcarcinōma n (genitive carcinōmatis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | carcinōma | carcinōmata |
genitive | carcinōmatis | carcinōmatum |
dative | carcinōmatī | carcinōmatibus |
accusative | carcinōma | carcinōmata |
ablative | carcinōmate | carcinōmatibus |
vocative | carcinōma | carcinōmata |
Descendants
edit- Catalan: carcinoma m
- Czech: karcinom
- Finnish: karsinooma
- French: carcinome
- Galician: carcinoma m
- German: Karzinom n
- Hungarian: karcinóma
- Ido: karcinomo
- Irish: carcanóma m
- Italian: carcinoma
- Portuguese: carcinoma
- Russian: карцино́ма f (karcinóma)
- Serbo-Croatian: karcinom m
- Spanish: carcinoma m
- Swedish: karcinom n
- Tagalog: karsinoma
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -omɐ
- Hyphenation: car‧ci‧no‧ma
Noun
editcarcinoma m (plural carcinomas)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin carcinōma, from Ancient Greek καρκίνωμα (karkínōma).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /kaɾθiˈnoma/ [kaɾ.θiˈno.ma]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaɾsiˈnoma/ [kaɾ.siˈno.ma]
- Rhymes: -oma
- Syllabification: car‧ci‧no‧ma
Noun
editcarcinoma m (plural carcinomas)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “carcinoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (turn)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *-iHnos
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- es:Oncology