How do you use the word "carcinoma" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "carcinoma": The doctor diagnosed a rare carcinoma. Surgery removed the carcinoma successfully.

Carcinoma Meaning

/ˌkɑːsɪˈnəʊmə/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.

nounA form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.

Sentence Examples

The doctor diagnosed a rare carcinoma.

Surgery removed the carcinoma successfully.

The oncologist explained the treatment plan for the diagnosed carcinoma.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The biopsy confirmed that the lump was a malignant ____ requiring immediate treatment.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A ____ is a type of cancer that starts in the skin or the tissues city.

Word Origin & History

Learned 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). 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).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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: […]" — 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:

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