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choriocarcinoma

choriocarcinoma noun: a malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.

Noun

choriocarcinoma (plural choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata)

  1. A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.
    • When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 135

choriocarcinoma meaning in Tamil

choriocarcinoma in Tamil

கருக்கோளகப் புற்று

Forms of choriocarcinoma

pluralchoriocarcinomas
pluralchoriocarcinomata

Origin of choriocarcinoma

From chorio- + carcinoma.

Words formed from choriocarcinoma

Questions about choriocarcinoma

What does choriocarcinoma mean?
Choriocarcinoma means a malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.
What is choriocarcinoma in Tamil?
Choriocarcinoma in Tamil is கருக்கோளகப் புற்று. See Choriocarcinoma meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is choriocarcinoma?
Choriocarcinoma is a noun.
What is the plural of choriocarcinoma?
The plural of choriocarcinoma is choriocarcinomas.

Words near choriocarcinoma in the dictionary

  1. chorioblastomata
  2. choriocapillaries
  3. choriocapillaris
  4. choriocapillaritis
  5. choriocapillary
  6. choriocarcinoma
  7. choriocarcinomas
  8. choriocarcinomata
  9. choriocarcinomatosis
  10. choriocarcinomatous
  11. choriocentesis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: choriocarcinoma (page history and authors); choriocarcinoma (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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