pleomorphic

Or ple·o·mor·phous

[plee-uh-mawr-fik]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pleomorphic¹

First recorded in 1885–90; pleomorph(ism) + -ic

Example Sentences

Smith has received immunotherapy treatment for a rare form of lung cancer called pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma, which he said had helped shrink his tumours significantly.

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She was initially told that, to remove the pleomorphic adenoma, surgeons would have to cut out her largest salivary gland, which contains the facial nerve.

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The 86-year-old told Australia's 10 News First programme he had pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma, a rare form of lung cancer.

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The cells show abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm with pleomorphic nuclei and prominent mitotic figures.

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Out of this alchemy of expansion and resentment came Ford, who died on Tuesday of pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer, at the age of forty-six.

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