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Definition of Carcinosarcoma
1. Noun. A malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixed.
Definition of Carcinosarcoma
1. Noun. (pathology) Any malignant neoplasm that has characteristics of both a carcinoma and a sarcoma ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carcinosarcoma
1. [n -MATA or -MAS]
Medical Definition of Carcinosarcoma
1. A malignant neoplasm that contains elements of carcinoma and sarcoma so extensively intermixed as to indicate neoplasia of epithelial and mesenchymal tissue. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carcinosarcoma
Literary usage of Carcinosarcoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"... a fact which renders Schmorl's interpretation of his carcinosarcoma very
questionable. I have seen pure spindle-cell métastases in epithelioma of lip, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... Rich (Taxodiaceae)* showed significant activity in vivo against the Walker
intramuscular carcinosarcoma 256 in rats and in vitro against cells derived ..."
3. Text-book of gynecological diagnosis by Georg Winter, Carl Ruge (1909)
"... in the first place, the microscopic picture may determine whether the growth
is a carcinoma, a sarcoma, or a carcinosarcoma; and, in the second place, ..."
4. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"By transplanting carcinosarcoma and continuing the process, pure sarcoma finally
developed (the carcinomatous tissue was overgrown by the sarcomatous). ..."
5. Manual of gynecology by Henry Turman Byford (1897)
"... an adenosarcoma, or a carcinosarcoma, and sometimes undergoes fatty or calcareous
degeneration. Small extravasations of blood in its substance, ..."
6. A Text-book of diseases of women by Barton Cooke Hirst (1905)
"... and chondrosarcoma have been observed in sarcoma of the corporeal endometrium.
The occurrence of adenosarcoma and carcinosarcoma is doubtful. Fig. 384. ..."
7. General Pathology: An Introduction to the Study of Medicine, Being a by Horst Oertel (1921)
"In some rare instances the stroma joins the epithelium in immature, unrestrained
growths, thus establishing a combined cancer and sarcoma (carcinosarcoma). ..."
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