small cell carcinoma

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   highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas

   Synonymsoat cell carcinoma

   Broadercarcinoma

Questions about small cell carcinoma

What does small cell carcinoma mean?

small cell carcinoma means "highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas".

What is another word for small cell carcinoma?

Close synonyms include oat cell 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 small cell carcinoma a common word?

small cell carcinoma 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.