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Definition of Glandular cancer
1. Noun. Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium.
Generic synonyms: Carcinoma
Specialized synonyms: Prostate Cancer, Prostatic Adenocarcinoma
Derivative terms: Adenocarcinomatous
Medical Definition of Glandular cancer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glandular Cancer
Literary usage of Glandular cancer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck (1885)
"Soft glandular cancer usually begins deeply in the substance of the b№ as a soft
globular tumor, which rapidly increases in bulk and infiltrates:: whole ..."
2. A Manual of Pathological Histology: To Serve as an Introduction to the Study by Evan Buchanan Baxter (1872)
"glandular cancer, with its many varieties, constitutes the natural termination
of the histogenetic series which we have been hitherto considering. ..."
3. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures: A Textbook by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"The salivary glands may also be the seat of glandular cancer, but they do not
come till old age; ... In the prostatic gland I have seen glandular cancer a ..."
4. Practical Gynecology: A Comprehensive Text-book for Students and Physicians by Edward Emmet Montgomery (1903)
"This form of disease was originally denominated by Ruge adenoma malignum, and he
endeavored to differentiate it from pure glandular cancer. ..."
5. Hand-book of Skin Diseases by Isidor Neumann (1872)
"... as the epithelial cancer, that is, the glandular cancer of the ...
the fibro-glandular cancer, which sometimes appears as an infiltration of the corium; ..."
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