nounWord forms: plural-mas or -mata (-mətə) pathology
1.
any malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue
2. another name for cancer (sense 1)
Derived forms
carcinomatoid (ˌcarciˈnomaˌtoid) or carcinomatous (ˌcarciˈnomatous)
adjective
Word origin
C18: from Latin, from Greek karkinōma, from karkinoscancer
Examples of 'carcinomata' in a sentence
carcinomata
The polypectomy was curative in all of the in situ carcinomata except one.
F. Pérez Roldán, P. González Carro, M. L. Legaz Huidobro, M. C. Villafáñez García,S. Soto Fernández, A. de Pedro Esteban, O. Roncero García- Escribano, F. Ruiz Carrillo 2004, 'Endoscopic resection of large colorectal polyps Resección endoscópica de pólipos difícilesde colon', Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivashttp://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1130-01082004000100006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All related terms of 'carcinomata'
carcinoma
Carcinoma is a type of cancer .
scirrhous carcinoma
a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues
basal cell carcinoma
a common and usually curable skin cancer that arises from epithelial cells and rarely metastasizes: often associated with overexposure to sunlight
scirrhi
a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues
scirrhus
a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues
scirrhusses
a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues