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carcinoid
[ kahr-suh-noid ]
noun
, Pathology.
- a small, yellowish amino-acid and peptide-secreting tumor usually found in the gastrointestinal tract and lung.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carcinoid1
First recorded in 1925–30; carcin(o)- + -oid
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