Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pathological condition characterized by the presence of carcinomas that have metastasized to many parts of the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Generalized cancer disseminated throughout the body. Also called
carcinosis .
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- noun medicine The widespread presence of
carcinomas that havemetastasized throughout the body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He spoke too fast for my brain, using words like fistula, ileostomy, and carcinomatosis.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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He spoke too fast for my brain, using words like fistula, ileostomy, and carcinomatosis.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The cancer came back suddenly, it was all over her, carcinomatosis, they called it.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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The success rates of peritoneal carcinomatosis formation were 100% (12/12), 91. 7% (11/12) and 58. 3% (7/12), respectively, for Groups A, B and C (P = 0.019, A versus C; P = 0.077, B versus C; P = 0.500, A versus B, Fisher's exact test).
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The clinico-pathological progression pattern was very similar to patients of advanced gastric cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis.
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This study was to establish a stable rabbit peritoneal carcinomatosis model of gastric cancer using VX2 tumor, and analyze the clinico-pathological features.
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Two weeks after submucosal cancer cells injection in Group A, ulcerative gastric cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis showed typical VX2 tumor pathology, with widespread intraperitoneal metastatic nodules, bloody ascites and perspicuous pulmonary metastases.
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First large animal model of peritoneal carcinomatosis from gastric cancer has been established by laparotomic orthotopic injection of VX2 cancer cells into the submucosal layer of the stomach, providing a more suitable model for surgical interventional studies.
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The clinico-pathological features of this model resemble human peritoneal carcinomatosis.
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This study was to establish a stable rabbit peritoneal carcinomatosis model of gastric cancer using VX2 tumor, and analyze the clinico-pathological features.
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