angiosarcoma

1. 1.

   a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels

   Broadermalignant tumor

Other forms of angiosarcoma

plural

angiosarcomas·

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 angiosarcoma

What does angiosarcoma mean?

angiosarcoma means "a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels".

How many syllables are in angiosarcoma?

angiosarcoma has 6 syllables: an-gi-o-sar-co-ma. The stress falls on "sar".

Is angiosarcoma a common word?

angiosarcoma 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.