choriocarcinoma

English

Etymology

From chorio- +‎ carcinoma.

Noun

choriocarcinoma (plural choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata)

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

Translations

malignant trophoblastic cancer

Catalan: coriocarcinoma
Finnish: koriokarsinooma
Spanish: coriocarcinoma m

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