Căr'çi-nō'mă, n.

noun

n. [Lat. carcinoma, Gr. καρκίνωμα, equivalent to καρκίνος, ulcer, cancer, from καρκινοῦν, to make crab-like, to cause the disease cancer, from καρκίνος, crab, cancer.] (Med.) A cancer, or cancerous tumor. Dunglison.