sarcoma
Americannoun
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sarcomas,
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sarcomata
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noun
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sarcomas
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A malignant tumor originating from mesodermal tissue, such as fat, muscle, or bone.
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Origin of sarcoma
1650–60; < New Latin < Greek sárkōma fleshy growth. See sarc-, -oma
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Essayli’s request notes that six children in the area have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The company reported the second Kaposi’s sarcoma case at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Like Milla, Ainscough was diagnosed with an aggressive type of epithelioid sarcoma in her forearm.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
The uveal tract may be the site of sarcoma.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
I now specialise in treating testicular cancers and sarcomas.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
"We have previously proven the success of this method with brain tumours and sarcomas" reminds Dr. Esteller.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Mutations to the TP53 gene cause cancer cells to grow and spread and are most commonly associated with leukemia, breast cancer, bone cancer and soft tissue sarcomas.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023
She eventually focused on a rare inherited syndrome that leads to colon cancer and also concentrated on sarcomas, which are soft-tissue cancers that often wrap themselves around blood vessels or vital organs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
The great majority of meningeal tumours are primary sarcomas, and in about 25 per cent. of cases they are multiple.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Fifty-six of these were done for cancer, and the remainder for sarcomata, papillomata, etc.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Those chiefly met with are dermoids, fibromata, sarcomata and epitheliomata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Fallopian tubes or oviducts 767 are liable to inflammatory affections, tuberculosis, sarcomata, cancer, chorion-epithelioma and tubal pregnancy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Schwimmer records a curious case of universal small sarcomata over the whole body of a teacher of the age of twenty-one, in the Hungarian lowlands.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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