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say it: sahr-KOH-mur
sarcoma is a noun meaning "a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer". It is pronounced /sɑɹˈkoʊmɚ/ — sahr-KOH-mur. It carries one recorded sense.
a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sarcoma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.