adenocarcinoma

1. 1.

   malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium

   Synonymsglandular cancerglandular carcinoma

   Broadercarcinoma

   Narrowerprostate cancer

Other forms of adenocarcinoma

plural

adenocarcinomata

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adenocarcinoma

What does adenocarcinoma mean?

adenocarcinoma means "malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium".

How many syllables are in adenocarcinoma?

adenocarcinoma has 7 syllables: a-de-no-car-ci-no-ma. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for adenocarcinoma?

Close synonyms include glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adenocarcinoma a common word?

adenocarcinoma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.