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Definition of Angiosarcoma
1. Noun. A rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels.
Definition of Angiosarcoma
1. Noun. (medicine) Any malignant tumour of vascular tissue ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Angiosarcoma
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Angiosarcoma
Literary usage of Angiosarcoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"31) reports a case of angiosarcoma occurring in a girl of sixteen years. ...
The microscopical examination of the tumor showed it to be an angiosarcoma. ..."
2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Yet manv types of sarcoma are derived from blood-vessels and it seems better to
limit the term "angiosarcoma" to the cellular and malignant forms of angioma ..."
3. Environmental Epidemiology by National Research Council (1991)
"In the 1970s, several epidemiologie investigations indicated that occupational
exposure to VC was associated with an increased risk of angiosarcoma of ..."
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