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choriocarcinoma

noun

Etymology

From chorio- + carcinoma.

  1. derived from κᾰρκῐνώμᾰτᾰ
  2. learned borrowing from carcinōmata
  3. derived from κᾰρκῐ́νωμᾰ — “sore, ulcer; cancer”
  4. learned borrowing from carcinōma — “tumour; ulcer; carcinoma”
  5. prefixed as choriocarcinoma — “chorio + carcinoma”

Definitions

  1. A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.

    • When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for choriocarcinoma. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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