Definition of Glandular carcinoma

1. Noun. Malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium.

Exact synonyms: Adenocarcinoma, Glandular Cancer
Generic synonyms: Carcinoma
Specialized synonyms: Prostate Cancer, Prostatic Adenocarcinoma
Derivative terms: Adenocarcinomatous

Medical Definition of Glandular carcinoma

1. A form of cancer that involves cells from the lining of the walls of many different organs of the body. Breast cancer is a type of adenocarcinoma. (14 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glandular Carcinoma

glandulae suprarenales accessoriae
glandulae tarsales
glandulae tracheales
glandulae tubariae
glandulae urethrales femininae
glandulae urethrales masculinae
glandular
glandular Labrador tea
glandular branches
glandular branches of facial artery
glandular branches of inferior thyroid artery
glandular branches of submandibular ganglion
glandular cancer
glandular carcinoma (current term)
glandular disease
glandular disorder
glandular epithelium
glandular fever
glandular lobe of hypophysis
glandular mastitis
glandular plague
glandular substance of prostate
glandular system
glandular tularaemia
glandularly
glandulation
glandule
glandules

Literary usage of Glandular carcinoma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pathology and surgical treatment of tumors by Nicholas Senn (1900)
"As compared with glandular carcinoma, squamous-celled carcinoma pursues a chronic course. This, as we have explained elsewhere, is to be attributed not so ..."

2. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Consisting of Original (1850)
"Intra-glandular carcinoma, infiltrating the entire gland. 1. Lobular carcinoma; attached to or involving only one lobe. 4. Carcinoma of the nipple. 3. ..."

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