osteogenic sarcoma

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   malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur

   Synonymsosteosarcoma

   Broadersarcoma

Questions about osteogenic sarcoma

What does osteogenic sarcoma mean?

osteogenic sarcoma means "malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur".

What is another word for osteogenic sarcoma?

Close synonyms include osteosarcoma. 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 osteogenic sarcoma a common word?

osteogenic sarcoma 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.