testicular cancer

1. 1.

   malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men

   Synonymsseminoma

   Broadercarcinoma

Questions about testicular cancer

What does testicular cancer mean?

testicular cancer means "malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men".

What is another word for testicular cancer?

Close synonyms include seminoma. 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 testicular cancer a common word?

testicular cancer 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.