sarcoma
pronunciation
How to pronounce sarcoma in British English:
UK [sɑ:ˈkəʊmə]
How to pronounce sarcoma in American English:
US [sɑrˈkoʊmə]
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- Noun:
- a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer
Word Origin
- sarcoma (n.)
- 1650s, "fleshy excrescence," Medical Latin, from Greek sarkoma "fleshy substance" (Galen), from sarkoun "to produce flesh, grow fleshy," from sarx (genitive sarkos) "flesh" (see sarcasm) + -oma. Meaning "harmful tumor of the connective tissue" first recorded 1804.
Example
- 1. Remarkably , as his white blood cells combatted the bacteria , the sarcoma shrank into a bland scar .
- 2. From this transcriptome analysis , the investigators found that the ipscs and malignant sarcoma cancer cells are unexpectedly similar in several respects .
- 3. There was the explicit association between cigarettes and lung cancer , while the newest disease , aids , sometimes appeared as multiple malignant tumours called kaposi 's sarcoma .
- 4. Increased risk of kaposi 's sarcoma and non-hodgkin 's lymphoma was associated with lower cd4 count , higher hiv viral load and a lack of combination antiretroviral therapy ( cart ) .
- 5. First seen in gay men in new york and california , these illnesses included kaposi 's sarcoma , a rare skin cancer , and a type of lung infection carried by birds .