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OAT CELL CARCINOMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas
Synonyms:
oat cell carcinoma; small cell carcinoma
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("oat cell carcinoma" is a kind of...):
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
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