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CANCER OF THE LIVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort
Synonyms:
cancer of the liver; liver cancer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cancer of the liver" is a kind of...):
liver disease (a disease affecting the liver)
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
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