Sarcoma Definition

sär-kōmə
sarcomas, sarcomata
noun
Any of various malignant tumors that begin in connective tissue, or in tissue developed from the mesoderm.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sarcoma

Noun

Singular:
sarcoma
Plural:
sarcomas, sarcomata

Origin of Sarcoma

  • New Latin from Greek sarkōma sarkōmat- fleshy excrescence from sarkoun to produce flesh from sarx sark- flesh

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh") +"Ž -ωμα (-ōma, “process").

    From Wiktionary

Sarcoma Sentence Examples

  • Where pigment was present within the cells (sarcoma), the attraction-spheres were represented by quite clear unpigmented areas, sometimes with a centrosome in their midst.

  • Trambusti, curiously, finds confirmatory evidence of this in the division of cells in sarcoma.

  • The sarcomatous development may even completely outgrow the epithelial elements and so form and continue to grow as a pure sarcoma.

  • Budding of Rous sarcoma virus and vesicular stomatitis virus from localized lipid regions in the plasma membrane of chicken embryo fibroblasts.

  • Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes a cyclin homologous to cellular D-type cyclins, which predominantly activates cdk6.

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