cancer of the liver

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   malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort

   Synonymsliver cancer

   Broaderliver diseasecarcinoma

Questions about cancer of the liver

What does cancer of the liver mean?

cancer of the liver means "malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort".

What is another word for cancer of the liver?

Close synonyms include liver cancer. 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 cancer of the liver a common word?

cancer of the liver 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.