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extratumoral

extratumoral adjective: outside of a tumor.

Adjective

extratumoral (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a tumor
    • The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI

Origin of extratumoral

From extra- + tumoral.

Questions about extratumoral

What does extratumoral mean?
Extratumoral means outside of a tumor.
What part of speech is extratumoral?
Extratumoral is an adjective.

Words near extratumoral in the dictionary

  1. extratropicalization
  2. extratropics
  3. extratubal
  4. extratubular
  5. extratubularly
  6. extratumoral
  7. extratympanic
  8. extraught
  9. extraumbilical
  10. extraurinary
  11. extrauteral

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