carcinomas

Noun

carcinoma (countable and uncountable, plural carcinomas or carcinomata)

1. (countable) An invasive malignant tumour derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
2. (countable, obsolete) A form of cancer; (uncountable) cancer in general as a disease.
   • Take the fatteſt and fulleſt Figs you can get, lay them upon the ugly and ill favored tumor called Carcinoma, i. the Canker, ſo it be not yet exulcerat, I aſſure you it is a ſoveraine remedie, and hardly can be matched againe: […]1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXIII.] Of Peares, and the Properties Observed in Them. Of Tame Figge Trees, and Their Figges. Of the Wild Figge Tree. Of Erineus, and...